Theodore Roethke Quotes

Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion

Theodore Roethke

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• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

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• It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

  

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• Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'

  

  Saint Basil
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• I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

  

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• All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
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• When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • You
  • Commitment
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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.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
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• I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Youth
  • Very
  • Involved

• If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Know
  • Better
  • Judge

• The beautiful seems rightBy force of Beauty, and the feeble wrongBecause of weakness.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Beautiful

• Some country is going to be the clean energy superpower of the 21st century and create millions of jobs and businesses. It’s probably going to be either China, Germany, or America. I want it to be us! We invent the technology, we should make it and use it and export it, which will help to grow our economy.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Country
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  • Help

• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature
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• I think everyone should go on my diet. It's called the Fuck It Diet. Basically what it is, is if I want to eat something but it has a lot of fat or carbs, I just take a moment, and I go within, and I say 'Fuck it' and I eat it. You have to do it 6 times a day. It works really well with the Fuck That Shit Exercise Program.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Exercise

• Jeet Kune Do rejects all restrictions imposed by form and formality and emphasizes the clever use of the mind and body to defend and attack.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Mind
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• A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • God
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• I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Up
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• Bullies may land a punch. They might leave a mark. But they have never, not once, in the history of our United States, managed to match the strength and spirit of a people united in defense of their future.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
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• You do a film for a short time period - you put it all out there and move on.

  

  Jessica Szohr
  • Time
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• Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Smart
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• Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think about how people interact with their phones; how they consume content and how they share.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Think
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• There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.

  

  Sarah Kane
  • Mind
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• I think it's nice sometimes not to be plugged in 24/7 to email and the Internet and everything else. It's nice to get away.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Nice

• Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Reality
  • Exhaustion
  • Immediacy