Charlotte Bronte Quotes
Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.Charlotte Bronte
Quotes to Explore
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
Gary Lineker -
We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
Harold Prince -
I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!
Gabrielle Aplin -
I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
Rand Paul -
The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
Hans-Georg Gadamer -
I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
Zosia Mamet
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The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
Wendell Phillips -
I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you pull your eyes down, and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.
Patrick Swayze -
Chorus: We must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
Aristophanes -
I'm a big perfectionist! I'm trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.
Ariana Grande -
Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
Walker Percy -
It's fun to be liked, but when standing up for what you believe in, it's also very fun not to be liked.
Andrew Breitbart
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[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.
Queen Elizabeth II -
Books such as 'The Rules' and 'He's Just Not That Into You' need to go out of the window.
Whitney Wolfe Herd -
Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.
George Foreman -
I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.
Virginia Woolf -
Relationships are super complicated and always have dark and light in them. And all good sexual relationships do, too.
Tony Goldwyn -
I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
Zig Ziglar
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If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one of these guys that does the 15-20 minute nap. I don't play those games. I'm, like, an hour minimum. I'm not gonna lay down unless I know I have at least an hour.
J. J. Watt -
It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.
Eddie Mair -
Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
Charlotte Bronte