Anne Sullivan Macy Quotes

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

Anne Sullivan Macy

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• As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Dance

• I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mind

• I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• I'm such a perfectionist.

  

  Candice Glover
  • Perfectionist

• I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Work
  • Care

• There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Love
  • Soul
  • For Her

• I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • People
  • Women
  • Children

• I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Life
  • Live
  • Myself

• It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.

  

  Alex Trebek

• To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Believe

• Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Humanity

• We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Single

• That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

  

  Bill Le
  • Real
  • Money
  • Baseball

• Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

  

  Douglas Wilder
  • Black
  • Desire
  • Racism

• I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Education
  • Football
  • Baseball

• The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.

  

  Ahmet Davutoglu
  • Power
  • History

• I prefer 'cooling foods' for the summer - lots of fruits like watermelons, a few strands of kesar with raisins that have been soaked overnight, and lots of coconut water. Dinner is usually dahi chawal. I am a big foodie, so depending on my cravings, I indulge - maybe pasta or risotto.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • Water
  • Summer

• Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

  

  Charlotte Lennox
  • Great
  • Tax
  • Sincerity

• History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • History
  • Stuff
  • Myth

• I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking.

  

  Lucas Till

• Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

  

  Anne Sullivan Macy
  • History
  • Light
  • Humanity