Anna Brackett Quotes

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

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• I am rather inclined to silence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Silence

• Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Stories

• The generals have a saying: "Rather than make the first move it is better to wait and see. Rather than advance an inch it is better to retreat a yard." This is called going forward without advancing, pushing back without using weapons. There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy. Underestimating your enemy means thinking that he is evil. Thus you destroy your three treasures and become an enemy yourself. When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Enemy
  • Victory
  • Yield

• To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Community
  • Christian
  • Materialism

• We've told (the players) since day one that our schedule gets harder each week. Our kids know that the district is a lot better than what we've seen in non-district.

  

  Thomas Scott "Flip" Phillips Alter Bridge
  • Kids
  • Harder
  • Seen

• When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it...

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Wreck
  • Rolls Royce

• I feel like I'm a graduate of the Roger Corman School of Filmmaking. I went and visited Roger on the set of Dinoshark and that's in the movie. That's where I really got a big whopping taste of what it's like to be on one of his sets.

  

  Alex Stapleton
  • Movie
  • Taste
  • Filmmaking

• The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

  

  Shirley Hufstedler
  • Children
  • Society
  • Teacher

• The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

  

  Michel de Montaigne
  • Wisdom
  • Sign
  • Cheerfulness

• ISIS is the near-term threat, and that the longer - or the mid-term challenge is managing the rise of China. There's some evidence that that's the thinking of the [Donald Trump] administration. That's a perfectly reasonable approach. Well, if that's the case, then you surely want to have a united West to deal with both, and you want to have Russia alongside, but maybe not this Russia while it's busy trying to undermine your chief asset, which is a united West.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • Trying
  • Challenges
  • Evidence

• Countries, sovereignty, citizenship, and laws are all social constructions: abstractions invented by humans.

  

  Aviva Chomsky
  • Humans
  • Laws
  • Invented

• I don't like sleeping in a different place every night, but I do like meeting new people.

  

  Ed Askew
  • Night
  • Meeting
  • Sleeping

• The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Message
  • Piece
  • Possessions

• O, to have the soul bathed all day long in this thought, " as the pebble in the willow brook " until the words come like the tears, because the heart is full, and we cannot help it; to feel, in the darkest hour, that there is an unseen Spectator whose eyes rest on us like morning on the flowers; and that in the severest sorrow, we can sink into a presence full of love and sympathy, deeper than ever breathed from earth or sky or loving hearts— a presence in which all fears and anxieties melt away as ice-crystals in the warm ocean. This is heaven.

  

  Edward Thomson
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Soul

• Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread in its simplest, most pure, and most healthful state.... Is there one person in a thousand who would truly enjoy a meal of simple bread of two days old?

  

  William Alcott
  • Practice
  • Persons
  • Culinary

• We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

  

  Anna Brackett
  • Possessions
  • Anxieties
  • Conveniences