Ruth St. Denis Quotes

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.

Ruth St. Denis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 20, 1879 - July 21, 1968

Topics

MountainsWorldHeightsSeeOutUs

The 'Occupy' movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning 'the corporation as a person,' and some legislators are supporting that concept.

John Battelle

PersonMovementThemeSeemsFound

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

Robert Stone

ThanMuchAnybodyElseCrazier

I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

Michael Connelly

MeBookBelieveThinkWillNever

Women aren't sitting back after they win an election. They're leaning in!

Amy Klobuchar

WomenWinBackElectionSitting

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

Amy Goodman

MoneyNewOffRatherThanTaken

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

Stokely Carmichael

StruggleRacismPeopleOrganization

How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.

Robert Dallek

PerspectiveDifferentWouldRather

I think there's definitely a potential there for a congregation to survive without the Crystal Cathedral. The congregation is the people. It's not the building.

Robert A. Schuller

PeopleBuildingSurviveThink

As an athlete, you can train for so many years to be a 5K/10K runner. That's who you are, and it's hard to change that. Not using that technique - almost like a sprint - that's when you have to loosen up and just save as much energy as you can.

Mo Farah

ChangeEnergyYouTrainAthleteUp

You can't pick up a golf club if your thumb hurts.

Jason Day

GolfYouClubUpYourPick

If you're going to be an R already, you may as well be 'The Hangover,' and you may as well be as shocking as possible, because that's what delivers the most return.

Jon Favreau

YouPossibleReturnMayGoingWell

Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people.

Christie Brinkley

WorkBusinessMoneyJobPeople

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