Annie Quotes
Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.
Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.
I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.
When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.
Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.
There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.
I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who do not belong to that faith.
Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.
You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.
When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.
The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey.
No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's attitude towards life.
The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West individual immortality is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.
A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.
That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.
It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.
There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.
There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street.
I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.
You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.
If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist.
When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.
The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.
A lifetime of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way.
For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning?
When God saw fit to bestow such a gift, a man with any sense didn’t ask questions.
It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.
Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.
I think sometimes I think too damn much. I worry about this and that and everything else and then I wake up and four more years have slipped right out the back door.
On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.
The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever.
Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.
Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.
