Charlotte Bronte Quotes
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Smarter is always the answer.
Samuel J. Palmisano
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
Abraham Polonsky
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I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
Yami Gautam
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I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.
Eartha Kitt
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I will not take 'but' for an answer.
Langston Hughes
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The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
Karl Liebknecht
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Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.
Ingrid Newkirk
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Everybody has their own answer of what a catch should be. I say, secure the ball; if the ball is not moving, it's a dead ball, simple as that.
Randy Moss
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Genius sees the answer before the question.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.
Carl Reiner
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The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.
Oswald Chambers
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When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
Oswald Chambers
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The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.
Flann O'Brien
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They brought me in and told me they were probably going to pick the option up. You always want to earn whatever you get. I take a lot pride in that. He didn't have to bring me in today. I appreciate that. When I was a free agent, a lot of teams called and I really didn't answer. There was only one place, and that still remains the same. I don't want to play for nobody else but the Yankees.
Gary Sheffield
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Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask for details.
Katharine Hepburn
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates
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Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
Zeno of Citium
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Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.
Washington Allston
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It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
Dalai Lama
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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I don't mind playing older characters. I find it interesting. There are parts I couldn't have got when I was 30 years old. So, it continues to interest me in the same way that it always did.
Harrison Ford
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When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.
Padmasree Warrior
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It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
Charlotte Bronte