Anita Quotes

We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars
glued together with magic and music and words. ~ Anita Krishan

There was no one to whom he could explain that in order to survive he needed to be at altitude, a Himalayan altitude, so he might breathe. ~ Anita Desai

I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together. ~ Anita Diamant

I glanced at George half naked in his towel, then at Barkley, completely naked in his ... nothing. A vampire and a werewolf.
I shook my head. It was obvious. I was having one of my Anita Blake dreams again. ~ Michelle Rowen

I'm still embarrassed and mad at myself. But after seventy years, I also feel sorry for the girl I used to be. She was awfully hard on herself. ~ Anita Diamant

Mess with nature and it will mess right back ... ~ Anita Roddick

Even the word 'unconditional' is superfluous, because love, by its true definition, is unconditional. 'Conditional love' is an oxymoron -- a contradiction in terms. As soon as we put a condition on love, it become something else entirely.... unconditional love is a state of being, not a emotion. It means it has no opposite. Human love is an emotion, and as with all other emotions, it's part of duality. An opposite emotion, such as fear or hate, balances it out. But unconditional love just IS. It's not one side of the coin -- it's the WHOLE coin. ~ Anita Moorjani

If homosexuality were normal, God would have created Adam and Bruce. ~ Anita Bryant

Developers need to start moving away from the entitled macho-male power fantasy in their games. They need to recognize that there are wider stories that they can tell. ~ Anita Sarkeesian

Does this boat go to Europe, France? ~ Anita Loos

No one disputes that online businesses offer much more variety than their analog counterparts. ~ Anita Elberse

San Anita is a beautiful track. It's not too far from my house in L.A., and it's a beautiful place to go and watch the horses run. ~ Kevin Connolly

The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase that makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer mauled another car instead of yours. The woman you didn't meet because she couldn't get a taxi to the party you had to leave early from. All of life is a series of nonstories if you look at it that way. We just don't know what they are. ~ Anita Shreve

You're the scariest motherfucker in the room. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding. ~ Anita Diament

Who me?
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Faelan stuffed his mouth with the granola bar like a starving toddler and moved down the aisle with the loaded cart. Bree grabbed an empty one and squeaked back. She rounded the corner and stopped. Faelan wasn't chewing. That was a good sign. The package he was reading wasn't. He glanced up, mouth parted, eyes dark, and the hand holding the box of extra large condoms darted behind his back. ~ Anita Clenney

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't. ~ Anita Brookner

The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive. ~ Anita Diamant

They thought I was a vampire, and it had all been an act. I stared at Jean-Claude's smiling face and the matching scars: his chest, my arm. Jean-Claude's hand pulled me down into a bow. As the applause finally began to fade, Jean-Claude whispered, "We need to talk, Anita. Your friend Catherine's life depends on your actions." I met his eyes and said, "I killed the things that gave me this scar." He smiled broadly, showing just a hint of fang. "What a lovely coincidence. So did I. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Communication is the key for any global business. ~ Anita Roddick

Edward: I don't know whether to put my fingers in my ears and go la-la-la or find more of your guards so we can take bets. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Kind of necessary acceptance will form around her, like a lobster making its new shell, one that will be soft and easily breakable in the beginning but so hard that only lobster crackers can shatter it in the end. She can hardly wait. ~ Anita Shreve

I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings. ~ Anita Shreve

And just like that I had my lesson. I shouldn't assume that every woman a man bashes gave him a him a good reason to do it.- Anita Blake ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life. ~ Anita Hill

I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter. ~ Anita Hill

The market controls everything, but the market has no heart. ~ Anita Roddick

Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting. ~ Anita Shreve

If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters. ~ Anita Bryant

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album. ~ Anita Baker

Mimba had been right about white people. The best thing was to treat them like ghosts and cannibals, not to be trusted. But sometimes, a white ghost would look at you straight on, with a full smile, eye to eye. The smile of the eye was the secret, Mimba had taught her. You had to be careful always, but every now and again you could act as though they had souls, too. Easter was one like that. ~ Anita Diamant

Hotel Du Lac
Edith, once again anonymous, and accepting her anonymity, made an appropriately inconspicuous exit. And, sitting in the deserted salon, the first to arrive from the dining room, she felt her precarious dignity hard-pressed and about to succumb in the light of her earlier sadness. The pianist, sitting down to play, gave her a brief nod. She nodded back, and thought how limited her means of expression had become: nodding to the pianist or to Mme de Bonneuil, listening to Mrs Pusey, using a disguised voice in the novel she was writing and, with all of this, waiting for a voice that remained silent, hearing very little that meant anything to her at all. The dread implications of this condition made her blink her eyes and vow to be brave, to do better, not to give way. But it was not easy. ~ Anita Brookner

The notion that gaming was not for women rippled out into society, until we heard it not just from the games industry, but from our families, teachers and friends. As a consequence, I, like many women, had a complicated, love-hate relationship with gaming culture. ~ Anita Sarkeesian

Women that speak against Islam are being labelled as islamophobic, as though our right to free speech is disregarded, when it comes down to an oppressive regime, which does not even recognise women as human... ~ Anita B. Sulser PhD

[...] death is only a small interruption. ~ Anita Brookner

Oui , but if all the men in your life are happy, you are happier, and it makes my life easier.
- Jean-Claude ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Many may have stopped believing in you, but God hasn't. ~ Anita R. Sneed-Carter

I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

But I believe that girls need gumption, too, especially in this day and age. I believe you are a girl with gumption. ~ Anita Diamant

On Christmas Eve, my mother and I and Teddy and Anita went to Mass together. The shadowy church was lit only by an overhead light trained on the altar and by the flames of hundreds of flickering candles in glass cups set all around the nave. If you squinted, the columns and vaults seemed to melt away, all the grandness of the architecture receded, and the space became intimate, almost as if you were cast back many centuries to a humble place where a miracle had occurred, where the radiance issued not from candles but from the air itself, back to a less hectic era before the invention of clocks, to a night of peace from which a renewed world would then begin to date itself. ~ Dean Koontz

My mother had comforted me with tales ever since I was small. Sometimes they helped me peel a problem like an onion, or gave me ideas about what to do; other times, they calmed me so much that I would fall into a soothing sleep. My father used to say that her tales were better than the best medicine. Sighing, I burrowed into my mother's body like a child, knowing that the sound of her voice would be a balm on my heart. ~ Anita Amirrezvani

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold. ~ Anita Brookner

Put some make-up on me and I look not unlike a china doll. Put me in a puffy pink dress and I look delicate, dainty, petite. Dammit. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Remember, your only work is to love yourself, value yourself, and embody this truth of self-worth and self-love so that you can be love in action. That is true service, to yourself and to those who surround you. Realizing how loved and valued you are is what healed your cancer. This same knowledge is what will help you to create a life of heaven here on earth. You are serving no one when you get lost in the problems of the world. So the only question you need to ask when you are feeling defeated or lost is, "Where am I not loving myself? How can I value myself more? ~ Anita Moorjani

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach. ~ Anita Loos

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently ... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten. ~ Anita Roddick

The word love is never mentioned in big business. ~ Anita Roddick

When I think back, I get mad at what they did to those poor men. Ernie must have had PTSD - they called it shell shock - and the doctors told him to keep it all bottled up inside. They didn't know any better, but it was like treating syphilis with candy bars. ~ Anita Diamant

Learning to love others begins with learning to love ourselves unconditionally first. I will never let myself down, treat myself like a doormat, or make myself small so others can feel big. I have learned that this is the biggest gift that I give not only to myself, but also to the planet, because I paint others with the same brush as I use on myself. ~ Anita Moorjani

A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel. ~ Anita Shreve

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. ~ Anita Roddick

Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

It is time that determines the intensity of love. ~ Anita Shreve

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company. ~ Anita Brookner

Successful entrepreneurs may hate hierarchies and structures and try to destroy them. They may garner the disapproval of MBAs for their creativity and wildness. But they have antennae in their heads. When they walk down the street anywhere in the world, they have their antennae out, evaluating how what they see can relate back to what they are doing. It might be packaging, a word, a poem, or even something in a completely different business. ~ Anita Roddick

You persuade people with passion, so you've got to have a product or service you feel emotionally charged about. Then you can tell stories about it that will inspire others. ~ Anita Roddick

When I look at my eighty-five-year-old face in the mirror today, I think, "You're never going to look better than you do today, honey, so smile." Whoever said a smile is the best face-lift was one smart woman. ~ Anita Diamant

Wars have been waged over millions of square miles, significantly larger than the British Empire at its peak. Historically, Islamic conquests stretched from southern France to the Philippines, from Austria to Nigeria, and from central Asia to New Guinea. The Muslim goal was to have a central government, first at Damascus, and then at Baghdad, later at Cairo, Istanbul, and other imperial centres. The local governors, judges, and other rulers were appointed by the central imperial authorities for far off colonies. Islamic law was introduced as the senior law, whether or not wanted by the local people. Arabic was introduced as the rulers' language, while the local languages frequently disappeared. Then, two classes of residents were established. The native residents paid a tax that their rulers did not have to pay. In each case, these laws allowed the local conquered people less freedom than was given to Muslims. ~ Anita B. Sulser PhD

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth. ~ Anita Roddick

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. ~ Anita Roddick

I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting. ~ Anita Loos

A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school. ~ Anita Roddick

The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread. ~ Anita Brookner

Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you. ~ Anita Shreve

Reality is merely one-tenth visible section of the iceberg that one sees above the surface of the ocean - art remaining nine-tenths of it that lies below the surface. That is why it is more near Truth than Reality itself. Art does not merely reflect Reality - it enlarges it. ~ Anita Desai

Perhaps, what I seek now is a friend like I have never had before. Someone to share a smoke and my thoughts with. Someone who will see life with the same eyes as I do; experience the same lift of spirit when mine soars. Someone whose destiny is woven with mine even though we are bound by neither blood nor any other tie. ~ Anita Nair

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice. ~ Anita Hill

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives. ~ Anita Borg

Better to be quirky alone than unhappy together. ~ Anita Hamilton

And then what do I do? Joyce asked, her voice suddenly pinched. ~ Anita Diamant

Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

o not preoccupy yourself with wants or expectations. The world won't abide by the standards, you set in any case, whether you set them too low or too high. It will break them every time for the simple fact that our true essence has no desire, hope or expectation for anything. It has no selfish inclinations of any kind. Everything, it experiences, is a passing phase, not its real identity. ~ Anita B. Sulser PhD

if you keep focusing on everyone's journey, you're going to stop paying attention to your own. ~ Anita Papas

It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons. ~ Anita Brookner

In their 2001 study 'The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias Against Women in the Treatment of Pain,' Diane E Hoffmann and Anita J. Tarzian pointed out that women are 'more likely to have their pain reports discounted as 'emotional' or 'psychogenic' and, therefore, 'not real.' This invalidation parallels the invalidation of women's anger, which is similarly often reduced to proof of women's mental weakness. One study of postoperative pain relief for patients who had undergone coronary artery bypass surgery revealed that men in pain were given pain relief medication, but women were given sedatives. Sedatives aren't pain relievers, or analgesics. They're calming and dulling agents that 'take the edge off.' But for whom, exactly? ~ Soraya Chemaly

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble. ~ Anita Roddick

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets. ~ Anita Diament

There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination? ~ Anita Shreve

We don't realise that we are actually perfect just the way we are. We are born perfect, but spend a lifetime trying to be something we are not, and then feel inadequate for failing. Your only purpose is to BE YOURSELF, otherwise you will deprive the universe of who you came here to be. ~ Anita Moorjani

Sometimes luck was just another word for creation, which was as relentless as destruction. ~ Anita Diamant

My own contentious relationship with gaming continued through high school and college: I still enjoyed playing games from time to time, but I always found myself pushed away by the sexism that permeated gaming culture. There were constant reminders that I didn't really belong. ~ Anita Sarkeesian

I'm completely anti-establishment; the only thing I like about the Queen are her scarves and her jewels. ~ Anita Pallenberg

I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombies all over my toys. Jesus. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Counting calories is not the answer, because eating is not the problem. ~ Anita Johnston

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation. ~ Anita Brookner

Read the book, Shadow over the Winter Palace," Sam Hugh explained. "It's about the Russian Czar Nicholas II and his crazy wife." Of course, Santos ~ Anita Paddock

Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it. ~ Anita Roddick

We are not known by our bank balances or who our parents are. It is ultimately we who have to prove ourselves. It is not important to own a particular brand of car. But we should be a brand in ourselves. Each of us is unique. ~ Anita Ratnam

You can edit crap, but you can't edit nothing. ~ Anita Bell

I shook my head. "I'm good, Nicky helped."
Nicky looked at Edward. "She's having one of those what-if-killing-feels-really-good, doesn't-that-make-me-a-bad-person moments."
Edward nodded as if that made perfect sense. "Then it feels good. We can't really control what flips our switch; don't judge it, Anita, and just accept it."
I wanted to argue, but it would have been beyond stupid to argue with the two sociopaths in my life. "Why do I have moral quandary questions with the two of you?"
"Because you don't really have moral quandaries about violence, Anita, but you're afraid of being judged for enjoying it, so you only bring it to the two people in your life who won't judge you."
I wanted to argue with Edward, but I couldn't. "Well, fuck. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself. ~ Anita Hill

When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun. ~ Anita Roddick

It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race. ~ Anita Loos

For almost a quarter of a century, Teen Ink has been encouraging young people to write - and then has published those pieces. These heartfelt essays and poems explore the issues faced by teenagers today. I applaud their efforts because they not only help young people deal with their own lives but also encourage the budding authors of the next generation. ~ Anita Silvey

Don't kiss me if you're afraid of thunder. My life is a storm. ~ Anita Krizzan