Charlotte Bronte Quotes

I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen: that I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.

Charlotte Bronte

• Power
• Vision
• Limit
• Overpass

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• I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Crime
  • Worst

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • True
  • Attention
  • Young

• When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Man
  • Brother
  • Years

• The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Truth
  • Technology
  • Better

• I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Want
  • Magic
  • Tricks

• Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Pretty
  • Well
  • Everybody

• I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Myself
  • Dance
  • Fitness

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • History
  • Science
  • Thought

• Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Innovation
  • Luxury
  • While

• I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Grateful

• I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Blame
  • Ideal
  • Promoting

• The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Money
  • Support
  • Government

• But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • School
  • Sex
  • Movies

• Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Europe
  • Italy
  • Switzerland

• You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • True
  • Nature
  • Want

• I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Think
  • Me
  • Play

• It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • People
  • Work
  • Kids

• Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.

  

  Lynn Good
  • People
  • Power
  • Unique

• I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Feminist

• Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

  

  D.T. Max
  • Community
  • Agreement
  • Saws

• I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen: that I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Power
  • Vision
  • Limit