Combating Stereotypes Quotes & Sayings

Well, strap my ass to a flagpole and hoist it skyward' an all to familiar voice declared. — Keri Arthur

Conversion isn't, after all, a moment: It's a process, and it keeps happening, with cycles of acceptance and resistance, epiphany and doubt. — Sara Miles

I found my spirit wanted to choose between only two things - suicide, or the dreams I'd had in my youth. I am an old fool who borrowed the dreams of a young fool. — Kurt Vonnegut

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then ... I have to do it; I don't have a choice. — Julian Lennon

Thought must always contain an element of desire, but there is none in dreaming. The dream, which is wholly spontaneous, adopts and preserves, even in our utmost flights of fancy, the pattern of our spirit; nothing comes more truly from the very depths of the soul than those unconsidered and uncontrolled aspirations to the splendours of destiny. It is in these, much more than in our reasoned thoughts, that a man's true nature is to be found. Our imaginings are what most resemble us. Each of us dreams of the unknown and the impossible in his own way. — Victor Hugo

For magic to exist, it must be shared. Always remember to pass along your kindness to others ... A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. — Michael Delaware

We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth. — Nathan Wolfe

The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after. — Benito Mussolini

The people hung upon His words - that is, until they hung Him on a cross. Admiration is fleeting. Love is eternal. — Mark Hart

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write. — Grace Paley

As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young. — Minnie Driver

I buy tons of magazines. They're a big part of how I research characters. And I keep them around and go back to them years later. I just have stacks. — Jennifer Morrison

There is only one way to go: up. I like to find cheap assets with problems. It gives me power. — Mikhail Prokhorov