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Theodore Roethke Quotes

A mind too active is no mind at all.

Theodore Roethke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 25, 1908 - August 1, 1963

Topics

Mind Active Too

Just as Chairman Mao and Joseph Stalin started by going after the intellectuals, against those whose words who might form an opposition to them, so Trump has gone across us. Free speech is first among equals when we look at what is being violated by this new regime.

Words Free Speech Look New First

I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.

People Win Horse You Go Run

Let's be very clear: Living 'unforgiven' is not the sole domain of blacks. It can be found in any successful person.

Person Living Successful Clear Found

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Knowledge Meaning You Know True

What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

Trombone Shorty

Life Crazy My Life Happen Things

I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there.

Time Growing Up Remember Down Know

When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Marriage God Go New Temple Sacred

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

Patient Operation Any Momentous

Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.

Douglas Alexander

Democracy Opinion Public Opinion Any

Respect isn't enough. You've got to have a proprietary interest.

Respect Enough You Interest Got

I wasn't the cool kid in school, but I wasn't the lame one. I knew I wasn't cool, so I called myself lame, and that's what made me cool in front of the cool kids.

Myself School Me Cool Kid Kids

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

Great Time Baby Haircut Media You

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