“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking”
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Agnes de Mille3
American dancer and choreographer 1905–1993Related quotes
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) Swedish painter
Friedrich's remark to Carl Gustac Carus, as cited by Sigrid Hinz, Caspar David Friedrich in Briefen und Bekenntnissen; Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellchaft, Berlin ,1968 p. 239; translated and quoted in Religious Symbolism in Caspar David Friedrich, by Colin J. Bailey https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:1m2225&datastreamId=POST-PEER-REVIEW-PUBLISHERS-DOCUMENT.PDF, paper; Oct. 1988 - Edinburgh College of Art, p. 19 <br class="br">undated
“Power never takes a back step — only in the face of more power.”
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Maynard James Keenan (1964) musician
Carl Kozlowski (September 11, 2008) "Taste in the making: Tool’s Maynard James Keenan shifts his focus from writing dark lyrics to creating zesty wines" http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/taste_in_the_making/6378/, Pasadena Weekly. Southland Publishing.
“The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.”
Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher
Source: Recapture the Wonder
“When you are about to badger the weak,
Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.”
Thiruvalluvar book Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXV.10
Tirukkural