Annie Besant Quotes

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

Annie Besant

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• At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Love
  • Power

• If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Time
  • Career
  • Change

• I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Better
  • Far
  • Editor

• When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Bad
  • Unique
  • Watch

• Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Power
  • Nature

• It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Value
  • Daily

• It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Better

• It's not easy to come somewhere new and have to find your place. You might feel someone doesn't like you, or you might need to find new friends. It's not easy, and I don't like this kind of thing. It's not easy, so you want to protect the players who are alone.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Friends
  • Alone
  • Easy

• Women artists are still treated differently from men.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Men
  • Women
  • Artists

• Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

  

  Barack Obama
  • True
  • Plan
  • Doctor

• I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Security
  • Big
  • Entourage

• I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Know

• My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.

  

  Adam Braun
  • World
  • Dream
  • Words

• Just losing a couple pounds takes so much stress off your joints. Your body feels better.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Couple
  • Body
  • Stress

• I work very hard to line up stereotypes and then smash them with a hammer.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Stereotypes

• Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Think
  • Storytelling
  • Cosmic

• I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Characters
  • Experiences
  • Pattern

• If you feel like you've got a concussion, if you don't know, if you take the test whatever, if you feel like you've got a concussion, the biggest thing is rest, man. Cause you usually compound your injury so much if you go back out there, and we all know that now.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Man
  • Know
  • Rest

• To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

  

  Bill Budge

• Anarchism is not chaos; Anarchism is not rejection of organization. This is another popular misconception, repeated ad nauseam by the corporate media and by anarchism's political foes, especially Marxists (who sometimes know better).

  

  Chaz Bufe
  • Organization
  • Chaos
  • Rejection

• Mr. President, putting it bluntly, wouldn't we just be continuing a bloodbath that already exists in Cambodia if we voted the 222 million in aid?

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • President
  • Aid
  • Bloodbath

• The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,For talking age and whispering lovers made.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Age

• I am European Games champion now as well as Olympic champion, European champion, and world champion.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • World
  • Champion

• Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

  

  Annie Besant