Anarchist Ann Quotes

I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything. ~ Brooke Bida

Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You ~ Brooke Bida

The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched. ~ Ann Brashares

He has to take me as I am, broken bits and all. ~ Ann Aguirre

I know I look good enough to eat, if I say so myself. Well, too bad for you. I am not on the menu. ~ Ann Greyson

I used to love, and I still do, Lee Ann Womack. And Alison Krauss. I mean, how many Grammys does she have? She's just remained solid and true and great, and I respect that. ~ Kacey Musgraves

I thought I would get calmer, surer, but each time we come close I feel almost sick at first. As though each time vibrates with the times before. I feel a terrible sorrow coming up my throat, I don't know why. And it can only be consoled against the length of her body. Lying down with her for the first time ... all the pain I didn't know I had, till at her touch it disappeared like smoke. Is this what purgatory feels like? To burn painlessly? If so, why isn't it called heaven? ~ Ann-Marie MacDonald

Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser. ~ Ann Landers

Nebraska was white, a page as still as fallen snow. It was not crosshatched with roads, overrun with the hard lines of interstate systems. It was a state on which you could make lists, jot down phone numbers, draw pictures. ~ Ann Patchett

He's inviting me to heal, but also to see my most meaningful calling: to be His healing to the hurting. My own brokenness, driving me into Christ's, is exactly where I can touch the brokenhearted. Our ~ Ann Voskamp

When Minutemen leader Jim Gilchrist and his black colleague Marvin Stewart were invited by the College Republicans to speak at Columbia last year, the tolerant, free-speech-loving Columbia students violently attacked them, shutting down the speech. ~ Ann Coulter

Tibby, on the other hand, had spent hundreds and hundreds of hours with Brian striving for the comfort of not knowing. ~ Ann Brashares

Now, the impact on export markets - we export about 10 percent of what we produce, so obviously that will probably have some impact on the market. At this point it's too early to determine how much. ~ Ann Veneman

Social Ecology:
The notion that man must dominate nature emerges directly from the domination of man by man ... But it was not until organic community relation ... dissolved into market relationships that the planet itself was reduced to a resource for exploitation. This centuries-long tendency finds its most exacerbating development in modern capitalism. Owing to its inherently competitive nature, bourgeois society not only pits humans against each other, it also pits the mass of humanity against the natural world. Just as men are converted into commodities, so every aspect of nature is converted into a commodity, a resource to be manufactured and merchandised wantonly. ... The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital. ~ Murray Bookchin

My mind is, to use a disgustingly obvious simile, like a wastebasket full of waste paper; bits of hair, and rotting apple cores. I am feeling depressed from being exposed to so many lives, so many of them exciting, new to my realm of experience. I pass by people, grazing them on the edges, and it bothers me. I've got to admire someone to really like them deeply - to value them as friends. It was that way with Ann: I admired her wit, her riding, her vivacious imagination - all the things that made her the way she was. I could lean on her as she leaned on me. Together the two of us could face anything - only not quite anything, or she would be back. And so she is gone, and I am bereft for awhile. But what do I know of sorrow? ~ Sylvia Plath

In California, the fabulously rich support the poor with government jobs, paid for by the middle class which is now living in Arizona. ~ Ann Coulter

I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television. ~ Penelope Ann Miller

Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe. ~ Ann Voskamp

The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel. ~ Harriet Ann Jacobs

At the same time, popular notions of marriage and the home were challenged on other fronts. Utopian communities experimented with radical new forms of marriage or, as in the Oneida Community, did away with it altogether. The Shakers took up celibacy, the Mormons polygamy; and Charles Knowlton issued an underground best-seller on birth control methods. William Alcott, Catherine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and scores of other experts countered ~ Ann Jones

One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff. ~ Shirley Ann Grau

Tuning must come first. Each recital begins with a careful tightening of the pegs on the cross-bar, twisting them in their socket of red threads as each string is plucked and tested. He uses his thumb for this, softer and subtler than the plectrum, his head bent to the vibrating string and his lips slightly open, breathing quickly, as over the body of a lover. ~ Ann Wroe

How do you know what a rock star feels like, Ada May? Have you ever been a rock star? I don't think so,' Beth Ann said.
'I was just guessing.'
'Well, not me. I'm not saying I feel like something when I don't have any idea what that feels like and neither do you. ~ Jodi Thomas

As a child, when I first heard the story of Creation, I'd closed my eyes and pictured the earth as a ball rolling off the palm of God and into dark space, then drifting around until it found its home in sunny orbit. Never perfect, but ever spinning, and holding on to her course, despite it all. ~ Ann Howard Creel

I've been a fan of Jack Vance since before I was in high school. ~ Ann Leckie

I really don't have a guilty pleasure. ~ Ann Marie Buerkle

She did a mental z-snap and channeled her inner badass. ~ Julie Ann Walker

Bay stood there, red hair curling around her face and the mass tumbling down her back and over her shoulders. Her green eyes were bright with the fear she probably thought she'd hidden so well. ENFORCER'S REDEMPTION ~ Carrie Ann Ryan

Marshington is here. ~ Kristi Ann Hunter

Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of producing a pleasing, yet lasting effect, which effect, therefore, we call happiness. Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect. ~ Ann Radcliffe

An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size. ~ Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

you also have to find him or her at a time in life when you're able to listen to, trust, and implement the lessons you receive. The ~ Ann Patchett

Quinn soon followed after he scooped his jaw off the floor and sent out a search party to look for his castrated man parts. ~ Jewel E. Ann

I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now. ~ Ann Beattie

Please don't shoot me, Jeffreys. I'm quite fond of this coat. ~Colin ~ Kristi Ann Hunter

Being an asshole? Or quoting classic literature? ~ Julie Ann Walker