Theodore Roethke Quotes

Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

Theodore Roethke

• Running
• Simple
• Eye
• Enough
• Feet
• Grass
• Minnows

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• You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

  

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• For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

  

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  • You
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• I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.

  

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• My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

  

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• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

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• With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.

  

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• A house is kind of scary.

  

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• My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

  

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• Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

  

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• Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

  

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• Don't be afraid to look silly.

  

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• I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

  

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• Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

  

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• We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

  

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• Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

  

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  • Character
  • Doing
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• The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

  

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• Temi, Adso, i profeti e coloro disposti a morire per la verità, ché di solito fan morire moltissimo con loro, spesso prima di loro, talvolta al posto loro.

  

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• After the first proof of 'Sphere Spirals' my high expectations were, as always, greatly disappointed. I am now struggling on - with some feeling of despair - so that I at least achieve a passable result.

  

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• Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

  

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• I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

  

  Anthony Clifford Grayling
  • Writing
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• I tend to build bulk and muscle easily, and running seems to make sure I stay kind of stringy, if that makes sense.

  

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• Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.)

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • World
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• Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Running
  • Simple
  • Eye