Leonowens Anna Quotes & Sayings

When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you. — Henry Rollins

In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well. — Marc Benioff

In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror. — Anna Leonowens

The most dangerous risk in life is to risk nothing — Matthew Armstrong

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write. — Anna Leonowens

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known. — Henry David Thoreau

The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed. — Anna Leonowens

There is compensation in all things. — Anna Leonowens

You don't need a hand-out, you need a hand-up! And that's what we need to portray: 'Look, do you want to live in mediocrity? Because that's all that the entitlements are going to do for you. Keep you living in the lowest socio-economic scale. — Rafael Cruz

All these wars are similar in the way ideology is being used. It's the ideology of so-called humanitarian intervention. We don't want to do this, but we're doing this for the sake of the people who live there. This is, of course, a terrible sleight of hand because all sorts of people live there, and, by and large, they do it to help one faction and not the other. — Tariq Ali

The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis. — Barry Lopez

There's no question you get caught up in the drama but I always concentrate on whose winning and whose losing that's for sure. That's one thing you can't do in boxing is lose your concentration, watch your mind wander. — Harold Lederman

The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best. — Emily Dickinson

We are prone to ignore or to condemn that which we do not clearly understand; — Anna Harriette Leonowens

So Dorian let his father rage. He sat in on those meetings and shut down his revulsion and horror when his father sent a third minister to the butchering block. For Sorscha, for the promise of keeping her safe, of someday, perhaps, not having to hide what and who he was, he kept on his well-worn mask, offered banal suggestions about what to do regarding Aelin, and pretended. One last time.
When Celaena got back, when she returned as she'd sworn she would . . .
Then they would set about changing the world together. — Sarah J. Maas

The night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered. — Anna Leonowens

It takes a unique woman to see me as any sort of catch. — Moby