#Believe Quotes #Goal Quotes #Effort Quotes
“I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.”
“Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.”
Source : Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist”, p.61, Hachette UK
“What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since it's impossible to have respect for an audience that'll take just about anything you care to dish out, and the impassive demeanor is so central to the role, a general numbnose is all that can be expected.”
“Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.”
Source : Shan Sa (2009). “Empress: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins
“I generally don't involve myself in giving the actors some tips on acting. At the same time, I don't do that with the director.”
“Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.”
“Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most advanced state it takes the title of judgment. Hume quotes Fontenelle's ingenious distinction between the common watch that tells the hours, and the delicately constructed one that marks the seconds and smallest differences of time.”
“I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.”
Billie Holiday Singer
Dalai Lama
Desmond Tutu Activist
Gautama Buddha Founding Figure
Heinrich Harrer Mountaineer
Mahatma Gandhi Lawyer
Matthieu Ricard Monk
Nhat Hanh Monk
Pierre Boulez Composer
