Randall Jarrell Quotes
I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness - that the darkness flung me -Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darknessAnd we call it wisdom. It is pain.
Quotes to Explore
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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I think quotes are very dangerous things.
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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
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[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!
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I believe that prayer in public schools should be voluntary. It is difficult for me to see how religious exercises can be a requirement in public schools, given our Constitutional requirement of separation of church and state. I feel that the highly desirable goal of religious education must be principally the responsibility of church and home. I do not believe that public education should show any hostility toward religion, and neither should it inhibit voluntary participation, if it does not interfere with the educational process.
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We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
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In times of crisis, people overestimate what will be required.
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If you steal my artwork, you will pay. In cash.
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I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness - that the darkness flung me -Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darknessAnd we call it wisdom. It is pain.
