Theodore Roethke Quotes

I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The wheel turning away from itself, The sprawl of the wave, The on-coming water.

Theodore Roethke

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• I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Real

• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • You
  • Tough

• God made them as stubble to our swords.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Made
  • Our

• If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Running

• The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Done
  • Question
  • Immigration

• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • People
  • Music
  • Modeling

• For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Knowledge

• I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Future
  • Stop
  • March

• What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Model
  • Doing
  • Year

• I feel like I have another level every year that I start a new season of basketball. If I continue to keep growing, and make everything consistent, I'm going to get better and better each year.

  

  Victor Oladipo
  • Growing
  • Basketball
  • Year

• People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Small
  • Ideas

• Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Gold
  • Lead
  • Silver

• I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Single

• The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • World
  • Tiger
  • Magnificent

• Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Going
  • Hip Hop
  • Bear

• I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Want
  • Know

• It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Character
  • Action
  • Discipline

• Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • World
  • Question

• Jesus' simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently letting the words soak in until they understand them fully.

  

  Roma Downey
  • Simple
  • Difficult
  • Talking

• I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Water
  • Internet

• I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.

  

  Miroslav Vitous
  • Walking
  • Stuff
  • Lines

• I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The wheel turning away from itself, The sprawl of the wave, The on-coming water.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Water
  • Forever
  • Tomorrow