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.

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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
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Way
  • Find
  • Process

• 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
  • Parents
  • Player
  • Record

• 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
  • Think
  • Process
  • Information

• The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Focus
  • Mirror
  • Subjectivity

• I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Earth

• The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • People
  • Power
  • American

• 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
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Mirror

• 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
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Channel

• Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Cake
  • Proust
  • Bourbon

• 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
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Fun

• [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
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Books such as 'The Rules' and 'He's Just Not That Into You' need to go out of the window.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Need
  • Rules
  • Window

• Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.

  

  George Foreman
  • Sports
  • Boxing
  • Aspire

• The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Real
  • Attention
  • Perfect

• When Clark Gable, MGM's most popular and famous leading man asked for a percentage of the profits from his films, he was flatly refused. A top executive was reported to have said, He's nobody. We took him from nobody. We lavished him with lessons and publicity and now he's the most desired man in the world. Who taught him how to walk? We straightened his teeth and capped them into that smile. We taught this dumb cluck how to depict great emotions, and now he wants a piece of the action? Never!

  

  Jeanine Basinger
  • Lessons
  • Piece
  • Desired

• Enjoy the present, plot the progress, you'll still reach the goal.

  

  Debra Searle
  • Progress
  • Goal
  • Enjoy

• Blood helicopters chopped across my slim cerebrum like fresh diamonds, rings in screaming on small hands coming awake inside my linings, each after its own way to reach beyond me.

  

  Blake Butler
  • Blood
  • Reach
  • Screaming

• In court the next morning I sat at a table in the judge’s chambers. On the other side of the table, close enough for me to reach across and touch him, sat Ted Bundy. He’s adorable, I thought, surprised at my first impression, because I’d pictured him in my mind as brooding, dark, intense disdain.

  

  Elizabeth Loftus
  • Judge
  • Reach
  • Impression

• 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
  • Reach
  • Desired
  • Blames