Anne Askew Quotes

I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".

Anne Askew

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• I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Man

• The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Blood
  • Old
  • England

• I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • God
  • College
  • Eyes

• I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Religion
  • Ego
  • Losing

• Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • You
  • Look
  • Lose

• Single mums do come in for a hard time. Society is incredibly judgmental. I know this.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Society
  • Know

• I hate the word sexy.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Hate
  • Sexy
  • Word

• However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Religious
  • Values
  • Roots

• I'm OK: I don't need money.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Money
  • Need
  • OK

• Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

  

  Sallust
  • Man
  • Action
  • Thought

• And I know that all I understand about living is having your work to do, and being able to do it. That’s the pleasure, and the glory, and all. And if you can’t do the work, or it’s taken from you, then what’s any good? You have to have something....

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Taken

• Of the 16 years that I have been living in Germany, I have given myself entirely to the German art world. How am I now suddenly supposed to feel myself a foreigner?

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Art
  • German

• Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances … created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Experience
  • Progress

• I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...

  

  Amy Tan
  • Fighting

• Do the best job I can, not hurt our fellow beings on this planet, that's my religion.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Job
  • Hurt

• Life is good - we forget that.

  

  Maryam D'Abo
  • Life
  • Good

• I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Life
  • Different
  • School

• Gratitude is a humble emotion. It expresses itself in a thousand ways, from a sincere thank you to friend or stranger, to the mute, up-reaching acknowledgment to God--not for the gifts of this day only, but for the day itself; not for what we believe will be ours in the future, but for the bounty of the past.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• I've worn my share of dresses and heels in my career. It's easy. It's not very challenging. It's not fulfilling.

  

  Melanie Scrofano
  • Career

• Mr. Trump, you were elected mainly because you found a way to connect with the average blue-collar worker who's sick of the games politicians have been playing for years. Those same blue-collar folks, who go to church, want to feed their families, have to pay their taxes.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Want
  • Church
  • Trump

• Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Bible
  • Constitution

• Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Master’s service is to be well soaked in the Bible; some of us only exploit certain passages. Our Lord wants to give us continuous instruction out of His word; continuous instruction turns hearers into disciples.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Learning
  • Service
  • Bible

• I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".

  

  Anne Askew
  • Church
  • Bible
  • Read