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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Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.
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Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.
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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
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Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted in nature as to die.
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I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.
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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.
