Lennox Quotes & Sayings

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. — Annie Lennox

The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete. — Lennox Lewis

I am a communicator; that seems to be my natural place. And I'll always be passionate about the world, because it's so bonkers. — Annie Lennox

I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring. — Lennox Lewis

He has been a world champion - great for him - but listen, whenever Lennox Lewis wants to come out of retirement, I'm here waiting for him because I'm the best British fighter to come out of these shores. — Tyson Fury

I would rather avoid disaster than take it out for dinner and a movie. - Chynna Lennox — Jim Cooper

I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove. — Lennox Lewis

How do you and your mother manage to get your hair exactly the same shade? It's uncanny."

"I'll have you know, I'm a natural blonde!"

"How could I know that? You wouldn't let me turn the lights on. — Kara Lennox

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. ' — Annie Lennox

Vibrant eyes, chocolate brown, kind. The mosaic of Bodee Lennox. — Courtney C. Stevens

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent. — Lennox Lewis

I like where I live here, in London. — Annie Lennox

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. — Annie Lennox

You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals
my mission is complete. — Lennox Lewis

The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices. — Amy Lee

Women empowering other women.They get the psycho-social support. They become part of a community. — Annie Lennox

Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him. — Annie Lennox

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself. — Annie Lennox

I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly. — Annie Lennox

In a way, it's all down to perception, isn't it? And everyone has their own take on everything. — Annie Lennox

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that. — Annie Lennox

Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries. — Annie Lennox

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. — John C. Lennox

I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical drop. These things don't interest me in the slightest, but I get so caught up in the color or the texture of the sounds of something. That's so funny to me. — Annie Lennox

I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that. — Annie Lennox

There are so many things that we could do to change the world in so many aspects. There are people working in nonprofit organizations, tackling the issues that we so desperately need to face, while governments fail so appallingly. — Annie Lennox

I'm not particularly attention-seeking. — Annie Lennox

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question. — Annie Lennox

[Kirk] Johnson throws some heavy punches and is a knockout fighter. This is what people want to see. They want to see a fight, they want to see punches and they want to see action. — Lennox Lewis

After about 25 fights you don't always have to keep going to the bathroom before the fight. — Lennox Lewis

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way towards him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us. (Acts 17:26 — John C. Lennox

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people. — Annie Lennox

I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! I'm Alexander! He's no Alexander! I'm the best ever. There's never been anyone as ruthless as me. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah! — Mike Tyson

There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy. — Lennox Lewis

I had a number of different labels. A lot of people assumed I was gay because I was wearing a man's suit, and one had to learn that it's OK, people will do that, and you don't always have to explain it one hundred percent, because they're never going to accept what your own interpretation is. It's all illusory. — Annie Lennox

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community. — Annie Lennox

There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong. — Annie Lennox

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item. — Annie Lennox

The music scene in the '70s was like the United Kingdom in the '70s - we had a lot of unemployment, we had inflation, we had a lot of strikes going on, on a national scale, and a lot of discontent. That was reflected in the music. — Annie Lennox

Different fights bring out different things. I consider myself a seasoned professional. I have done things in the gym that have not come out yet. People would be amazed if they saw me train. — Lennox Lewis

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul. — Annie Lennox

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself. — Annie Lennox

I play chess about four hours a day in training camp. You have to decide what move to use, or what combination of moves. I think less when I box because the reaction time is a lot quicker, but some people call me the chess boxer because they say I think too much in the ring. I take my time and they don't see the action they want. Some boxers just go in there and just throw punches and hope to win ... — Lennox Lewis

I know these two weeks have been God walking right into my life like he has flesh and Kool-Aid coloured hair. The gospel according to Bodee Lennox. His safety. His protection. And love. — Courtney C. Stevens

If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that. — Annie Lennox

When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working! — Annie Lennox

A hero in one age will be a hero in another. — Charlotte Lennox

The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination. — Charlotte Lennox

Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity. — Charlotte Lennox

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree. — Annie Lennox

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had. — Annie Lennox

He glared down at the tiny woman who looked startlingly, hauntingly similar to the little sister he'd tried to protect so many years — Elizabeth Lennox

There must be an angel playing with my heart. — Annie Lennox

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed. — Annie Lennox

People want to see me back in the ring. I think it is more of a drag lying around on the beach. — Lennox Lewis

Something that's of common interest to every man, woman and child on the planet must surely be the notion of 'Peace'. Without 'Peace' we cannot survive. Valentine's Day is on the 14 February. Christmas Day is on the 25 December. Peace Day has been established by the United Nations on the 21 September, and the whole world is invited to participate. — Annie Lennox

The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back. — Annie Lennox

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance. — Annie Lennox

The more we get to know about our universe, the more the hypothesis that there is a Creator God, who designed the universe for a purpose, gains in credibility as the best explanation of why we are here. — John C. Lennox

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. You're not going there just to merely observe. You have a purpose, and your purpose is to tell that story, to share that story for the bigger benefit of millions of other people. Your purpose is to create that bridge so you can give that story the dignity and the focus that it deserves, and you can become a part of the amplification that needs to be there. — Annie Lennox

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice. — Charlotte Lennox

A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny. — Stephanie Lennox

It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know. — Annie Lennox

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere? — Annie Lennox

Is the world divided into mind and matter, and, if so, what is mind, what is matter? Is mind subject to matter, or is it possessed of independent powers? Has the universe any unity or purpose? Is it evolving towards some goal? Are there really laws of nature, or do we believe in them only because of our innate love of order? Is man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water impotently crawling on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is there a way of living that is noble and another that is base, or are all ways of living merely futile? ... To such questions no answers can be found in the laboratory.'23 — John C. Lennox

All the champions - you go and ask Mike Tyson or Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Lennox Lewis and myself included, and I'm sorry for putting myself in line with all the other great names - but the champion's attitude is it doesn't matter who is in front of me, I am going to conquer this person and win the fight and knock the person out. — Wladimir Klitschko

I used to be obsessed about how I presented myself. I didn't want other people dressing me because I didn't want to be treated like a clothes horse. — Annie Lennox

I always dressed as a man when I was at school. I loved wearing a tie and a shirt, and I was always wearing suits. Annie Lennox was my hero. I was always playing men in high school. — Cate Blanchett

The problem was Mike Tyson always had trouble with bigger men. Even fighters like Bud Green, "Bonecrusher", he had trouble with them whether he wanted to or not. He would have had great trouble with Lennox Lewis, particularly since he maximized his shortness by crouching, and he couldn't fight inside so the guy would pick him apart like Buster Douglas. — Bert Sugar

Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary. — Annie Lennox

People are still crying out for Lennox Lewis. They still want to see Lennox Lewis. That motivated me. I am still young. I have a couple fights left in me. — Lennox Lewis

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life. — Annie Lennox

The Malays were outstripped economically in their own country by the immigrant races. In the words of historian Lennox Mills, "when the British came, the Malay was a poor man in a poor country; when they left he was a poor man in a rich country." British attitudes and policies, what the Malays did for a living, the strengths of the immigrants and the nature of the Malay value system all contributed to their backward economic position. — Anonymous

I've learned to distinguish between the greatness of God and the inexcusable evil that has been done by those professing his name. And so I do not deduce [as Christopher Hitchens does] that God is not great, and that religion poisons everything. After all, if I failed to distinguish between the genius of Einstein and the abuse of his science to create weapons of mass destruction, I might be tempted to say science is not great, and technology poisons everything. — John Lennox

As a journalist I'm asked whether I make things up. As a novelist I'm accused of telling the truth. — Lennox Morrison

All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer. — Stephanie Lennox

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. — Annie Lennox

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't. — Annie Lennox

It was one of Mrs. Hale's fitful days, when everything was a difficulty and a hardship; and Mr Lennox's appearance took this shape, although secretly she felt complimented by his thinking it worthwhile to call. — Elizabeth Gaskell

For me, there's never any bad blood - unless you do something to me. — Lennox Lewis

The measure of a life well lived is how many good dogs you can fit into it.
[or cats] — Marion Lennox

Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home. — Annie Lennox

We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal connector in that respect. It's a special language that defines certain boundaries and connects people in a particular way, a very emotional way, I have found. — Annie Lennox

Whatever is done by design is always overdone. — Charlotte Lennox

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that. — Annie Lennox

It's a very interesting fight [Klitchko vs Tyson Fury] because this is the first time [Wladimir] Klitschko is fighting someone as big as him and with longer arms. He will have to be a little bit more aggressive, otherwise the younger guy will have more speed and more energy and I think that may be the difference. — Lennox Lewis

The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by women who have no resources, little or no, very few resources - huge disparity. — Annie Lennox

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me. — Annie Lennox

I think that when you consider the beauty of the world and you wonder how it came to be what it is, you are naturally overwhelmed with a feeling of awe, a feeling of admiration and you almost feel a desire to worship something. I feel this, I recognise that other scientists such as Carl Sagan feel this, Einstein felt it. We, all of us, share a kind of religious reverence for the beauties of the universe, for the complexity of life. For the sheer magnitude of the cosmos, the sheer magnitude of geological time. And it's tempting to translate that feeling of awe and worship into a desire to worship some particular thing, a person, an agent. You want to attribute it to a maker, to a creator. What science has now achieved is an emancipation from that impulse to attribute these things to a creator.
God Delusion debate Professor Richard Dawkins vs John Lennox — Richard Dawkins

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe. — Charlotte Lennox

When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist. — Charlotte Lennox

It seems to me that a Christian like myself is presented with major problems, but they're nothing like the problems of the atheist. — John Lennox

The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure (and, one might add, poor) fiction. To call it science-fiction would besmirch the name of science. — John C. Lennox

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism. — Annie Lennox

Just for a minute," she said. He's not half bad, she thought, as far as princes go. "Just to watch the sunset," he agreed. He's not half bad, she thought, as far as enemies go. "Just to see the stars," she conceded. This isn't half bad, she thought, as far as wars go. "Just one day," he said. "You promised." And just to take another look at one small photograph hanging on the wall, she thought. Lennox Gates, what is your Siren story? — Kami Garcia

I've got a telescope in my garden and one of the things I love to do is go out and let the sky, the night sky, the galaxies, the Orion nebula, have an impact on my mind. I find that awe inspiring. And just to contemplate on what the astronomers have revealed to us about the immense size and so on of the universe. I find that very healthy. And it's a good thing to do. — John Lennox

The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art. — Stephanie Lennox

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own. — Annie Lennox

I cannot fight everyone at once. I have to take one at a time. — Lennox Lewis

You can consider me like fine wine. I just get better with age. — Lennox Lewis