C Vann Woodward Quotes

#1. The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

Robert A. Caro

#2. We have souls, you and I. We want to know things; we share the same earth, rich and verdant and fraught with perils. We don't either of us know what it means to die, no matter what we might say to the contrary.

Anne Rice

#3. Above all, every member of the university has an obligation to permit free expression in the university. No member has a right to prevent such expression. Every official of the university, moreover, has a special obligation to foster free expression and to ensure that it is not obstructed.

C. Vann Woodward

#4. Are you telling me in your own gentle way to stop whining?"
"Yes."
"I don't feel like a hero. I feel like an idiot."
"I think heroes generally do, but those men believe in you."
"I did wait until I was outside before I threw up.

Megan Whalen Turner

#5. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views.

C. Vann Woodward

#6. The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration.

Paul Brunton

#7. Ensure your employees understand what your brand stands for so they can be your first line of word-of-mouth advertising.

Simon Mainwaring

#8. The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.

C. Vann Woodward

#9. Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.

Eileen Myles

#10. I will tell you a story, one I used to tell to a little boy with dark hair. A silent boy who rarely laughs, who listened more closely than I realized. A boy who had a name and not a title

Leigh Bardugo

#11. the human tendency to treat big events as fundamentally different from smaller ones.

Ed Catmull

#12. The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.

D.H. Lawrence

#13. Things here are so different. Poisoned rivers, softened stone. You never know exactly what you're getting into. What will hold and what will give way

Ally Condie

#14. I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.

Peter Jackson

#15. Why not just hope to fuck me hard?"
"Because fucking you would never be enough.

Kenya Wright

#16. Teaching was the most rigorous form of learning.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#17. Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.
(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")

Wendell Berry

#18. Whole worlds' darkness is not enough to dark the blaze of a candle..

Sarvesh Jain