Ana S Nin Quotes & Sayings

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride. — Fredrik Backman

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. — George W. Bush

It wasn't what we needed then that was hurting us, it was what we was paying for that we had already used up. The country was just buying gasoline for a leaky tank. Everything was going into a gopher hole and you couldent see where you was going to get any of it back. — Will Rogers

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days. — Kitty Carlisle

When you get right down to it, lots of things that look fancy are easy to do, and lots of things that seem easy are hard, even if you're very creative and a good artist. — Nancy Freund

The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement. What is weakness in the man becomes a quality in the writer. For he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work. That is why the writer is the loneliest man in the world; because he lives, fights, dies, is reborn always alone; all his roles are played behind a curtain. In life he is an incongruous figure. — Anais Nin

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave. — Pericles

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often. — Anais Nin

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect. — Ziggy Marley

And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place. — Dick Durbin

I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die. — Winifred Mary Letts

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape — Ellen Hopkins

Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room. — Anais Nin

I think it's good for sporting justice that Ronaldo scored twice in the final. — Just Fontaine