Charlotte Bronte Quotes

God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?

Charlotte Bronte

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• Separation

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• For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Country

• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Town

• Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dad

• A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Mind
  • Play
  • Never

• I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Imagination
  • Living
  • Yes

• Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Writers

• When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Just
  • Director
  • One Thing

• 'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Power
  • Career

• I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Love
  • Artist

• We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Chaos

• The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

  

  Nate Parker
  • American
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Work
  • Book
  • Day

• I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Same

• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Science
  • Planning
  • Economic

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Time
  • Want
  • Free

• In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Change
  • Opinion
  • Stupid

• [During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Work
  • Women
  • Woman

• When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies.

  

  Sara Paxton
  • Parent
  • Classic
  • Raised

• The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Work
  • Nature

• I get huge solace from chaos, especially if someone else is doing it, too, like, 'Thank God it's not just me!'

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • God
  • Chaos

• God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • God
  • Spirit
  • Separation