Theodore Roethke Quotes

Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.

Theodore Roethke

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• If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

  

  Iris Chang
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• There is always pressure in football.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Football
  • Always
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• In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • You
  • Doubt
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• It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.

  

  Hannah Simone
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• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
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• We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Live
  • Criticism
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• It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
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• I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Mind
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• With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!

  

  Maika Monroe
  • World
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• Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Life
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• What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Men
  • Women
  • Step

• Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Music
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• Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.

  

  Lars Feld
  • Need
  • Limits
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• Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Time
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  • You

• Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • People
  • God
  • Friends

• The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • President
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• The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Problems

• To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• Party of Five" won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.

  

  Neve Campbell
  • Party
  • Television
  • Golden Globe

• If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Twin

• And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.

  

  Sharron Angle
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Father

• Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Father
  • Fear
  • Looks