Charlotte Bronte Quotes

I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.

Charlotte Bronte

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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Attention

• The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Desire
  • Prayer
  • Without

• I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Responsibility
  • Liberty

• Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Prayer

• I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Different
  • Love
  • Creative

• Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Order

• These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Done
  • Liberty
  • Slavery

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Important
  • Man
  • Prayer

• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Soul
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

  

  Otto Hermann Kahn
  • Democracy
  • Liberty
  • Foe

• I like the Kardashians, but I do keep them on the top of my prayer list.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Like
  • Prayer
  • Top

• Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Prayer
  • Self
  • Strength

• I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Lost
  • Liberty
  • Blood

• Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Religious
  • Should
  • Liberty

• Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

  

  Edith Stein
  • True
  • Soul
  • Single

• A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Law
  • Liberty
  • Welfare

• I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Religious

• Never is liberty more easily lost than when we think we are defending it.

  

  Ben Chifley
  • Lost
  • Liberty
  • Defending

• What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Believe
  • Love
  • True

• If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".

  

  Ken Robinson
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Most people who haven't been trained in physics probably think of what physicists do as a question of incredibly complicated calculations, but that's not really the essence of it. The essence of it is that physics is about concepts, wanting to understand the concepts, the principles by which the world works.

  

  Edward Witten
  • People
  • World
  • Question

• I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Prayer
  • Liberty
  • Desired