Emily Bronte Quotes

He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.

Emily Bronte

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• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Important
  • Done

• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Books
  • Shame

• Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • God
  • Result
  • Actions

• IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Winning
  • Exercise

• The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Rest

• I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Winning

• Winning the NFC championship affords you a chance at the next opportunity.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Opportunity
  • Winning
  • Chance

• I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • People
  • Think
  • Like

• I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • World
  • Attention
  • Songs

• There's a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect, and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say, 'Mia san mia.' Literally, it is, 'We are we,' but it means, 'We are who we are.' That's not being very arrogant, but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Game
  • Winning
  • Famous

• Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Night
  • Effort
  • Winning

• You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Day
  • Winning
  • Season

• As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Career
  • Dream
  • Winning

• When I was a teenager, I experimented a lot with hair colour, and the result was just awful.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Hair
  • Teenager
  • Result

• I've always craved winning. It's just easier in sports because there's a scoreboard.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Always
  • Sports
  • Winning

• Winning is obviously the biggest thing. Because if you don't win, nothing really matters. You can have all the money in the world, and they can still call you a loser.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • World
  • Money
  • Winning

• I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Life
  • Me
  • Winning

• Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Joy
  • Obstacles
  • Overcoming

• Surrender your expectations. Surrender your doubts. Surrender your fears. Surrender your strengths. Surrender your anger. Surrender your control.

  

  Yasmine Galenorn
  • Control
  • Doubt
  • Expectations

• The principle of collective leadership is elementary for a proletarian party and for a party of the Lenin type. Nevertheless, we must emphasize this old truth, because for about 20 years we have had practically no collective leadership; there flourished the cult of the individual which was condemned first by Marx and then by Lenin. And this, of course, could not but reflect negatively on the position of the party and its work.

  

  Anastas Mikoyan
  • Truth
  • Leadership
  • Cult

• Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide with others in a shower of sparks before spinning off into its own distance.

  

  S. J. Watson
  • Mind
  • Space
  • Moving

• He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Winning
  • Result
  • Shame