William P. Young Quotes

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

William P. Young

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• The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Human
  • Liberty
  • Sense

• On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Good
  • Great
  • American

• My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

  

  Halle Berry
  • World
  • Mother
  • Myself

• Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • People
  • War
  • Nature

• I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Community
  • Responsibility

• Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Job

• What’s our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future? Why are we pointing to somebody else when we could take the time just to go to the polling places? We give away our power.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Why
  • Power

• I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Past
  • Lies
  • Excuses

• I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Life
  • Road

• Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Science
  • Beginning
  • Blue

• il Zénon savait fort bien qu'il n'existe aucun accommodement durable entre ceux qui cherchent, pèsent, dissèquent, et s'honorent d'être capables de penser demain autrement qu'aujourd'hui, et ceux qui croient ou affirment croire, et obligent sous peine de mort leurs semblables à en faire autant.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Career

• I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have my very own school - no way. And I had no idea I'd be coaching girls. It's wild.

  

  Liang Chow
  • School
  • Coaching

• This was a time when racism was still very rampant, but the music that came out of Sun Studio was absolutely color blind. It was all about feeling. It was music that anybody could understand, and that made a step towards bettering the world for everyone.

  

  Drake Milligan
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

  

  Jeffrey Deitch
  • Art

• The older I get, and the more collections I do, the more I'm driven by real style and beauty. My aim is to reveal and not to display women.

  

  Phoebe Philo
  • Women
  • Real
  • Style

• I'm at my best when I'm talking about relationships, talking about women, talking about situations and stories.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • Women

• Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Live
  • Family

• I have yet to meet a man who has seen my true stars.

  

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
  • Man
  • Stars
  • Meet

• If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought of my poems as meant to be overheard, as I think all of these poems are. It seems to me if you get experience right, even your most painful or humiliating experiences - if you get those experiences right for yourself and make discoveries as you go along and find for them some formal glue - they will be poems for others.

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Exercise

• We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.

  

  Joshua Chamberlain
  • Better
  • Qualities
  • Fought

• Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

  

  William P. Young