Anthony Venn-Brown Quotes
Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.
Anthony Venn-Brown
Quotes to Explore
He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
Marcus Aurelius
I'm big on research.
James L. Brooks
It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women.
Luis Alberto Urrea
I have no idea whether I'm any good or not. Still waiting, like most actors, for somebody to find out one day that I can't do it.
Art Malik
When you come back on top after you've fallen, it's a better story.
Freddie Freeman
Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace,The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe,The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release,The indifferent judge between the high and low.
Philip Sidney
‘You cheated.’ ‘No, I exploited a weakness in my opponent. There is a difference.’
Christopher Paolini
Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.
Eric Maskin
The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them...The very essence of the liberty which they guarantee is the freedom of the individual from compulsion as to what he shall think and what he shall say...
Harlan Stone
I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work because ..." The because is very important. The teacher can help you understand the nature of your medium, and he can guide you in your reading.
Flannery O'Connor
I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically.
Ted Shawn
Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.
Jonah Goldberg