Charlotte Bronte Quotes

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

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• I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Think
  • Two
  • Inside

• I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.

  

  Om Puri
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Chess

• Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Deep
  • I Love You

• There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

  

  K. V. Thomas
  • Food
  • Enough
  • Moment

• There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Think
  • Try
  • Islam

• I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Society
  • Simple

• Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Time
  • Together
  • Year

• We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Choices
  • Need
  • Face

• I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Science
  • Small
  • Enjoy

• Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • Citizens
  • Again
  • West

• I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Up
  • Music
  • House

• I tried to get into the National Youth Theatre and didn't, and I tried to get into drama school and didn't, and then I went to university and was really delighted that I went there. I think having the word 'no' can be quite creative.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • School
  • Drama
  • Theatre

• The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Love
  • Faith
  • Integrity

• For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Political
  • Value

• I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Painting

• I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Time
  • Family
  • Job

• When Charles Darwin was trying to decide whether he should propose to his cousin Emma Wedgwood, he got out a pencil and paper and weighed every possible consequence. In favor of marriage he listed children, companionship, and the 'charms of music and female chit-chat.' Against marriage he listed the 'terrible loss of time,' lack of freedom to go where he wished, the burden of visiting relatives, the expense and anxiety provoked by children, the concern that 'perhaps my wife won't like London,' and having less money to spend on books. Weighing one column against the other produced a narrow margin of victory, and at the bottom Darwin scrawled, 'Marry—Marry—Marry Q.E.D.' Quod erat demonstrandum, the mathematical sign-off that Darwin himself restated in English: 'It being proved necessary to Marry.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Children
  • Consequence
  • Companionship

• Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a way, it validated our existence, our culture. He used the language of the street at the time and made it art. Art tends to be validating.

  

  Erik Parker
  • Culture
  • Existence
  • Levels

• We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.

  

  George Pelecanos
  • People
  • Inside
  • Schooled

• I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

  

  Ray Romano
  • Said
  • Inside
  • Getting

• What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Inside
  • Burn
  • Ignite