Anne Sullivan Macy Quotes

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

Anne Sullivan Macy

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• I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Want

• Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.

  

  Fatima Siad
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Up
  • Day
  • Best

• When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Long
  • Job
  • Trust

• Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!

  

  Hafez
  • Light
  • Wine
  • Glass

• We travel a lot and don't get enough time to spend with our family, and so we have to take our pictures, videos, also bother about things like which are the HD quality phones. So I'm very much a part of these typical things.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Time
  • Family
  • Quality

• My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

  

  Hans Frank
  • War
  • Justice
  • Effort

• My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Girl
  • Heaven
  • Angel

• By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Population
  • Local
  • Whale

• 'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Black
  • New
  • Orange

• Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.

  

  Frank Zappa

• I walk into the studio and we're all so happy to see each other.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Happy
  • Studio

• When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • People
  • American
  • America

• I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Trying
  • Serious
  • Social

• When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

  

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
  • Action
  • Habit
  • Our Actions

• The government and the opposition need to think about their people, if they actually went out and saw the conditions in which their people are living, it might actually mean that they would pause and think again about the importance of peace.

  

  Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos
  • People
  • Peace

• If the world economy is divided into isolated economic blocs of this kind, it will be rather difficult to achieve the same interpretation and application of international rules of economic activity and world trade.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • World
  • Kind
  • Economy

• I don't believe that China, in my lifetime or maybe my children's lifetime, be equal to the United States militarily speaking, but they are very careful to avoid any engagement in war, they are basically a peaceful country, which gives them another advantage over the United States when we are much more inclined to go to war for various reasons.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • United States
  • Equal
  • China

• You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Crime
  • Atheism
  • Blasphemy

• All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Quality
  • Existence
  • Feminist

• Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful layers of complexity without any corresponding increase in understanding.

  

  Sean M. Carroll
  • Understanding
  • Existence
  • Fit

• We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

  

  Anne Sullivan Macy
  • Existence
  • Escape
  • Chains