Anais Nin Quotes

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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• Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Rights
  • Means
  • Homosexuality

• I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.

  

  Larry King
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Jealous

• For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • People
  • Life
  • Party

• I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Kids
  • Think
  • House

• You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Heart
  • Movie
  • Want

• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• I think fine dining should be part of the community where it is, more than just for the people who are going to make a special occasion.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Think
  • Community

• I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Great
  • Think
  • Film

• My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Father
  • Also
  • Screenwriter

• Politics won't allow for the truth.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Allow

• I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Change

• I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Said
  • Yellow
  • Duck

• I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn't a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn't an entry point.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Thought

• I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Consider
  • Liberal
  • Leftist

• Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Understanding

• I live in a high-rise apartment building, so I just have two cats. They're both pound kitties. One of them, Dick, is an evil, foot-biting cat. When I write a tiger morph, I'm always imagining Dick.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Live
  • High
  • Evil

• A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Forget

• Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• It is impossible not to be moved by the verve, courage and elan with Churchill attacked his last and ultimately invincible enemy, old age and infirmity. As in all his campaigns, he assailed his adversary with endless high spirits, expert advice, ample helpings of brandy and champagne, and the loving and long-suffering support of his wife.

  

  David Cannadine
  • Wife
  • Advice
  • Helping

• I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word 'YOU' and I just put the letter 'U'.

  

  Kelly Osbourne
  • Guy
  • Dating
  • Text

• We can't do everything with a budget, but we can put the country on much sounder financial footing.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • Country
  • Financial

• I ’m on the sea! I ’m on the sea!I am where I would ever be,With the blue above and the blue below,And silence wheresoe’er I go.

  

  Barry Cornwall
  • Silence
  • Sea
  • Blue

• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

  

  Anais Nin