Theodore Roethke Quotes

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

Theodore Roethke

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• Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Small
  • Economy
  • Consumers

• As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Breath
  • Reform
  • Dedicate

• Form follows beauty.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Beauty
  • Form
  • Follows

• Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Power
  • Wife
  • Husband

• Music is such an inspiration to me. I love it when it completes a story, along with the words and image.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Music
  • Words
  • Inspiration

• Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Pain
  • Justice
  • Suffering

• Hagrid looked down at his umbrella and scratched his beard. 'Shouldn'ta lost me temper,' he said ruefully, 'but it didn't work anyway. Meant ter turn him into a pig, but I suppose he was so much like a pig anyway there wasn't much left ter do.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Work
  • Lost
  • Beard

• ... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Culture
  • Language
  • Voice

• The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • People
  • Good
  • Power

• Seriously, I thought it would be one of those things that would just come and go.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Things

• Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Great
  • Help
  • Respect

• A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'

  

  Courteney Cox
  • People
  • Relax
  • Times

• In the Kabbala, it says that we receive the light in order to impart the light, and thus we repair the world.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Light
  • Receive

• The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us.

  

  Kerri Strug
  • Great
  • Courage
  • Inside

• Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist - except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Earth
  • Giving
  • Struggle

• I think they are a very dangerous basketball team, a team that could create a lot of problems.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Team
  • Basketball
  • Dangerous

• There's a lot of confusion. There's a lot frustration and anger.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Anger
  • Frustration
  • Confusion

• I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

  

  Richard Widmark
  • Facts
  • Comfortable
  • Felt

• Who you are should not be defined by your achievements.

  

  Bill Courtney
  • Should
  • Achievement
  • Defined

• Hue does not refer to how light, dark, or intense, but only what kind of color: what hue. It takes all three aspects to make a color, therefore 'red' is not a color, but only one aspect, the hue, of some partially defined color.

  

  William Tapley Bennett Jr.
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Aspect

• So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Conditions
  • Defined
  • Adolescence