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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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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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 am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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The New Testament is of full authority and open to the understanding of simple men as to the points most needful to salvation.
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I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
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What we've done as a country is, we've said we owe it to our citizens to know who is traveling here and if they intend to do us harm.
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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.
