Annick Quotes & Sayings

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase of capitalism. It is totally inconsistent with democracy as well as with sustainability. What we have is capital working on a global scale, totally uprooted, with accountability nowhere, with responsibility nowhere, and with rights everywhere. This new capital, with absolute freedom and no accountability, is structurally anti-life, anti-freedom. — Vandana Shiva

Prayers offered in faith and then followed by songs of thanksgiving, praise and worship are an expression of our faith and love for God. Joy results when you have faith in the greatness of God and his power to deliver and save you and others from adverse circumstances and enemies. — James Strand

Land lasts longer than blood or love. It is not like a river. — Annick Smith

There was little Hiroko Tanaka hadn't learnt about the shameful resilience of the human heart. — Kamila Shamsie

Marina Singh: "You went to Radcliffe."
Annick Swenson: "I didn't love it. — Ann Patchett

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people. — Patricia Heaton

Need is a weak word. has nothing to do with what people get. Ain't what you need that matters. It's what you do. — Robert Newton Peck

Our mental conditions are simply the symbols in consciousness of the changes which take place automatically in the organism; ... to take an extreme illustration, the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but the symbol of that state of the brain which is the immediate cause of that act. We are conscious automata. — Thomas Henry Huxley

Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares — Peter Ustinov

I suddenly remember how different I am from most of the kids here. Nobody would have to drag me or my brothers to the Bahamas; we'd swim there if we could. For us, a family vacation is staying at a local hotel with a swimming pool for a weekend. — Angie Thomas

Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on. — Warren Buffett

Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken. - CONRIYAN PROVERB When — R. Scott Bakker

To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass. — Zora Neale Hurston

Who would dream of bringing charges against the devil when you are in hell? — Annick Cojean

I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Some of my favorite contemporary Montana writers and their books include Annick Smith's Homestead, a memoir of her experiences, along with her husband and four children, homesteading in the Blackfoot Valley on 163 acres in the 1960s; Deirdre — Nancy Pearl

... Some people, under a nervous and self-effacing manner, conceal a great deal of vanity and self-satisfaction. — Agatha Christie