Annamae Quotes & Sayings

If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered. — Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You're going to do well at it. — Warren Buffett

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Miss Annamae didn't give you those pearls because she thought for a second they'd get close to beating you down. She gave you those pearls because she knew without a doubt they never would. — Kristen Ashley

I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life's white machine. — Ben Lerner

Making the hard to decision to throw away a once favorite bra is like deleting an ex-friend that repeatedly let you down. — Crystal Woods

Nothing could be more gracefully majestic than his step and manner, had they not been marked by a predominant air of haughtiness, easily acquired by the exercise of unresisted authority. — Walter Scott

You ever think about the noose?'

'I been thinking about the noose since I was born. — Stacey Lee

Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep. Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. — Douglas Adams

Big love is the kind of love that takes in more than the self. It's love for something bigger than the self. It's love of God, of the universe, of the family, of the pack, of the tribe. It inspires courage and selflessness in those who know it. — Angelo Dirks

Nature never deceives us;
it is always we who deceive ourselves. — Scott Lynch

What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own? — Stacey Lee

The Lord is my rock, shield and great defender. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Good design means as little design as possible. — Dieter Rams

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. — Franz Grillparzer

There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me. — Nicola Yoon

There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge. — Swami Paramananda

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead. — Bram Stoker