Charlotte Bronte Quotes
I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest – blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.
Quotes to Explore
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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Practice puts brains in your muscles.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
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'Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.'
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Since building a universal virtual-reality generator is physically possible, it must actually be built in some universes.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.
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I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest – blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.
