„Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.“
As quoted in The Runner's Book of Daily Inspiration : A Year of Motivation, Revelation, and Instruction (1999) by Kevin Nelson, p. 11.
Martha Graham2
US-amerikanische Tänzerin, Choreografin und Pädagogin 1894 - 1991Ähnliche Zitate
„Nothing great is done without great men, and they are great because they wanted it.“
— Charles de Gaulle eighteenth President of the French Republic 1890 - 1970
On ne fait rien de grand sans de grands hommes, et ceux-ci le sont pour l'avoir voulu.
in Vers l’armée de métier.
Writings
„I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers…“
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
„The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise“
— Pierre Joseph Proudhon French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist 1809 - 1865
„It is said that behind every great man lies a great woman. This is because women lie.“
— Simon Munnery British comedian 1967
Attention Scum! (2001), Episode Two
— Colin Campbell Mitchell British Army officer and politician 1925 - 1996
Lt Col Colin Mitchell http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7111303.stm.
„America is great – because America is good.“
— Hillary Clinton American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady 1947
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), 2016 Democratic National Convention (July 28, 2016)
Quelle: "America is great because America is good" can be found in a contribution by Reverend Clarenca Reynolds to the September 6, 1922 https://books.google.com/books?id=3sYpAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PT21 issue of the Herald and Presbyter. The line is sometime falsely attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville.
Kontext: We will stand up against mean and divisive rhetoric wherever it comes from. You know, for the past year, many people made the mistake of laughing off Donald Trump's comments – excusing him as an entertainer just putting on a show. They think he couldn't possibly mean all the horrible things he says – like when he called women “pigs.”Or said that an American judge couldn't be fair because of his Mexican heritage. Or when he mocks and mimics a reporter with a disability. Or insults prisoners of war like John McCain –a true hero and patriot who deserves our respect. At first, I admit, I couldn't believe he meant it either. It was just too hard to fathom – that someone who wants to lead our nation could say those things. Could be like that. But here's the sad truth: There is no other Donald Trump.... This is it. And in the end, it comes down to what Donald Trump doesn't get: that America is great – because America is good.
— Alexis De Tocqueville French political thinker and historian 1805 - 1859
According to Michael A. Ledeen, this line has been falsely attributed to Tocqueville by Dwight Eisenhower, Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan. See Tocqueville on American Character (2001), p. 25 http://books.google.com/books?id=gFjQUXYsSR0C&pg=PA25. Hillary Clinton in her acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention (July 29, 2016), said, without attribution, "America is great because America is good."
Misattributed
„What man would not be a dancer if he could, said the judge. It’s a great thing, the dance.“
— Cormac McCarthy, buch Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian (1985)
„The Great Dancer is my husband," Mira says, "rain washes off all the other colors.”“
— Meera Bai Hindu mystic poet
Mīrābā, in Christian Mysticism East and West: What the Masters Teach Us http://books.google.co.in/books?id=u2EBULLB-uQC&pg=PA121, p. 121
„His great passion in the world ought to be a passion for the liberation of men.“
— Jacques Ellul French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist 1912 - 1994
The Ethics of Freedom (1973 - 1974)
Kontext: It seems to me that the free man, i. e., the man freed in Christ, ought to take parts in all movements that aim at human freedom. He obviously ought to oppose all dictatorship and oppression and all the fatalities which crush man. The Christian cannot bear it that others should be slaves. His great passion in the world ought to be a passion for the liberation of men.
p. 398
„Heidegger is 'great' not in spite of, but because of his Nazi engagement…“
— Slavoj Žižek Slovene philosopher 1949
In Defense of Lost Causes (2008)
„Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny“
— Camille Paglia American writer 1947
Quelle: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 100
Kontext: Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
— Vyasa central and revered figure in most Hindu traditions
Vyasa’s curse to the first widowed wife of his half brother on the son to be born to them. His mother [Satyavati] had asked him to produce heirs to the throne with the two widows of his half-brother. The first princess closed her eyes as Vyasa was in fearful ascetic condition when he slept with her. In due time Dhritarshtra was born blind. Quoted in p. 58.
Sources, Seer of the Fifth Veda: Kr̥ṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa in the Mahābhārata
— Arthur Desmond New Zealnd writer 1859 - 1929
Rival Caesars (1903)
— Rukmini Devi Arundale Indian Bharatnatyam dancer 1904 - 1986
pdf, A Century of Negotiations: The Changing Sphere of the Woman Dancer in India, 1 December 2013, Performancestudies.ucla.edu, 15-16 http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/downloads/SarkarNegotiation.pdf.,
