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.
Quotes to Explore
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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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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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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I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
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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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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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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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"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.
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One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.
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I do not foresee 'spaceships' to the moon or Mars. Mortals must live and die on Earth or within its atmosphere!
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Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
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Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.
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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.
