Annie Lennox Quotes

Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

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• There's no way that a third party wins without being in the presidential debates. I think the vast majority of Americans are Libertarian; they just don't know it.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Know
  • Party

• I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Blow

• Evil report carries further than any applause.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Evil
  • Applause
  • Carries

• Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Experience
  • Parents
  • Knowledge

• Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Walk

• She had a beaky nose, tight thin lips, and her eye could have been used for splitting logs in the teak forests of Borneo.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She

• I'm the money fight in the male shit at all divisions so fuck everybody else

  

  Conor McGregor
  • Money

• It is often better for a person to recognize a sin than to do a good deed. Recognizing a sin makes a person humble. Doing a good deed often can feed a person’s pride.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Good
  • Pride
  • Humble

• Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Today
  • Single
  • Progress

• Under the attentiveness was fear, and something else. Anger, hate-the instinctive rejection of an intolerable truth.

  

  Leigh Brackett
  • Truth
  • Fear
  • Hate

• I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

  

  David Mamet
  • Hate

• Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• I think the world's just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities.

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • World
  • Mad

• As a professional cellist, I go to mostly classical concerts because that's the music I play, but I am also always trying to find out who the voices of our time are. I attend a spectrum of concerts that are close to classical - anything from Wynton Marsalis to Renee Fleming.

  

  Jan Vogler
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • World
  • Men

• The difference between the swimming marathon and the pool events is mainly down to the weather. Nature always gives us external factors to deal with.

  

  Poliana Okimoto
  • Nature
  • Pool
  • Swimming

• Rarely do we see immediate use of innovative technologies. I believe that the future is built by small pieces that add up.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Future

• So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me.

  

  Kerry King Slayer
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn't have any role models. We saw teachers and doctors and nurses, but I'm not a teacher, and there was no possibility of being a doctor or a nurse. I had to work and find my own way.

  

  Alexis Wright
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Teacher

• I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Long
  • Art
  • Funny

• We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • Present

• I don't really have any big plans for 2008.

  

  Carrie Underwood

• Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

  

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