Charlotte Bronte Quotes

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

Charlotte Bronte

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• I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Good
  • Work
  • Learning

• A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Live
  • Human
  • Honor

• I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Great
  • Think
  • Me

• The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Different
  • First
  • Elected

• I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.

  

  Earle Combs
  • Animal
  • Right
  • Dumb

• We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Up
  • Money
  • Culture

• Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Research

• All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Story
  • Write
  • Upbringing

• I do not like violence.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Like
  • Violence

• We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Reality
  • Space
  • Humility

• I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Bored
  • Take
  • Seriously

• We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.

  

  Zev Yaroslavsky
  • Done
  • Easy
  • Washington

• I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Song

• I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.

  

  Becky G
  • World
  • Music
  • Family

• In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Amount
  • Massive
  • Genetics

• The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countries.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • American
  • True
  • Law

• If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Suffering

• Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • World

• When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• How many people can you claim truly care about you? I mean, not just the people in your life who are fun to hang out with, not just the people who you love and trust. But people who feel good when you are happy and successful, feel bad when you are hurt or going through a hard time, people who would walk away from their lives for a little while to help you with yours?

  

  Lisa Unger
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• I would always rather be happy than dignified.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Happy
  • Rather
  • Dignified