Theodore Roethke Quotes
A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
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There are two kinds of ham: raw and cooked. Raw ham is cured with salt and/or smoke over time; cooked ham is boiled. Every culture that makes ham has its own unique and various methods.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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I'm on Tumblr all the time.
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I think human nature is eternal and constant.
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
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He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.
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I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.
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I don’t want Salman Khan to be remembered as a star, actor. That is not my priority in life.
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I want a girlfriend who can eat like me.
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Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for the next generation. Do you understand my explanation or do you need a demonstration?
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Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.
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[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons.
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I notice a lot of people think they can solve their problems with antidepressants. That, I noticed, being like a bigger issue, like, it really strips people of who they are. Like, all your quirks and all your problems, even your depressions and your failures, that's what makes you, you. And there's a lot of drugs out there that will take that away from you.
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Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.
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All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
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There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.
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A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
