Annie Besant Quotes

A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.

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• As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Me
  • Challenges

• Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Pretty
  • Die
  • Fire

• You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • You
  • Questions
  • Ask

• I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • My Life

• TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Like
  • TV
  • Medium

• I can't avoid the interest in the fact that I'm an injured female soldier.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Interest
  • Soldier
  • Fact

• The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?

  

  Rae Carson
  • Being
  • Awesome
  • Common

• An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Desire
  • Childhood
  • Belief

• There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Said
  • Lot

• Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Job
  • Career

• Belief contains so many truths pertaining to God's Names and the realities contained in the universe that the most perfect science, knowledge, and virtue is belief and knowledge of God originating in a belief based on argument and investigation.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Work
  • American
  • Culture

• Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Time
  • Live
  • Cancer

• I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Up
  • Things

• A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

  

  Tacitus
  • Crime
  • Blessing
  • Initiative

• I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Like
  • Couple
  • Years

• It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Black
  • Earth

• If you're not working, you might as well be dead.

  

  T. C. Boyle

• The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

  

  David Ogilvy
  • Support
  • Marketing

• There are two chief responsibilities of the Secretary's office. One is to run the elections in the State of Connecticut to make sure they run fairly and efficiently because the Secretary is the chief election official. The Secretary of the State is also the chief business registrar for the State of Connecticut.

  

  Susan Bysiewicz
  • Responsibilities
  • Elections
  • Secretary

• Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes upon the unknown processes of matter. It demands only an enquiring mind and senses alive to the facts almost everywhere presented in nature. And as it may be acquired without much difficulty, so it may be improved without much painful exertion.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Philosophy

• Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Peace

• A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.

  

  Annie Besant