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

• Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Faith
  • Passion
  • Wisdom

• 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

• The first time I was on 'Johnny Carson,' I remember being so scared, but the minute he started talking to me, I felt a little more comfortable because I just knew he was going to take care of me. Hopefully, I have learned something from watching him for so many years that I can offer that to a guest.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Time
  • Remember

• I'm proud of myself, and I'm going to continue to grow.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Proud

• 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

• In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.

  

  Bernie Sanders

• I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

  

  David O. Selznick
  • Christmas

• I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• If I was a cabinetmaker or a commercial fisherman, it would be the same question - how to connect to my world. The job we do affords us the opportunity to have people listen to what we say. But a lot of people have a similar situation: They're trying to find a way to do some good.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• 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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