Charles M. Blow Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.”
-- Charles M. Blow

#Soul #Swamps #Confession
“There is no wrong time to do the right thing.”
-- Charles M. Blow

#Wrong Time #Right Thing
“You donâ€™t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.”
-- Charles M. Blow

#Teacher #Differences #World
“The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.”
-- Charles M. Blow

#Way #Cowardice #Vanquish
“There are no 'come shoot me' clothes.”
-- Charles M. Blow

#Clothes
“Voter apathy is a civic abdication.”
-- Charles M. Blow

#Apathy #Abdication #Voters
“Look at it this way: this administration is taking unprecedented steps to make sure that the government's secrets remain private while simultaneously invading the privacy of its citizens... Many innocents must be violated so that a few guilty people can be stopped. It's a digital stop-and-frisk...”
-- Charles M. Blow

#Government #Nsa #People
“There can be moments in your life where you may feel attracted to someone depending on circumstance, depending on the person of one gender or another, and sometimes where that is less of an influence in your life.”
-- Charles M. Blow

#May #Sometimes #Influence
“I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.”
-- Charles M. Blow

#Kids #Quiet #Introspective
“An illustration is a visual editorial - its just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.”
-- Charles M. Blow

#Illustration #Color #Weight
“While the word bisexual was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.”
-- Charles M. Blow

#Bisexual #Use #Connotation
“One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.”
-- Charles M. Blow

#Gay #Rights #Movement
“A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or itâ€™s really hard to catch.”
-- Charles M. Blow

#Lying #Cat #Doors
“Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you.”
-- Charles M. Blow

#Soul #Trying #Rewards
“I know that life, I've done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine.”
-- Charles M. Blow

#Done #Just Being #Fine
“Co-opted convictions will always betray you.”
-- Charles M. Blow

#Conviction #Betray
“Great leadership isnâ€™t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.”
-- Charles M. Blow

#Leader #Humanity #Together
“One doesnâ€™t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.”
-- Charles M. Blow

#Men #Empathy #Understanding

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