Annie Quotes

I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.

I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies.

Any woman who does not thoroughly enjoy tramping across the country on a clear frosty morning with a good gun and a pair of dogs does not know how to enjoy life.

Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms may find that imformation and skill of great importance.

God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house.

Aim at a high mark and you will hit it.

I ain't afraid to love a man.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work.

There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.

My mother…was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.

[On Sitting Bull:] The contents of his pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he understand how so much wealth should go brushing by, unmindful of the poor.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

Thought creates character.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

When you leave a pimp, you leave with nothing.

Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures.

India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

There is no such thing as away. When you throw something away, it must go somewhere.

Bottled water costs about 2000 times more than tap water. Can you imagine paying 2000 times the price of anything else? How about a $ 10,000 sandwich?

You are never too lost that God cannot reach you.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.