Quotes for All
Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it’s free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that … Read more
Proving one’s freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one’s behavior. Ermanno Bencivenga
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when … Read more
My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were. Elizabeth McCracken
Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on going that specific way, of making our selfishness the guide, we ought to forsake. The books we cannot write, the films we cannot shoot, the projects we cannot develop, the … Read more
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it Edith Schaeffer
Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into account and still insisting that improvement … is always a real possibility. E. J. Dionne
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? Fyodor Dostoevsky
My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations Fritz Kreisler