Emily Bronte Quotes

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• I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Children
  • Man
  • Small

• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Equality

• We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • Way
  • Wrong

• I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Art
  • Cutting
  • Architecture

• Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

  

  Colin Wilson

• Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber. (The TMZ Show)

  

  Charlie Sheen

• I don't really have a three-year plan or a five-year plan. I don't know what's next, and that's what I find quite exciting. I dig it.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard

• Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Diversity

• Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: 'There he is again. It's Fabian.' It's a very tough thing. Everybody wants to discount your talent because you have become so... I don't know... a god, if you will.

  

  David Cassidy
  • People
  • God
  • Teen

• Tech companies are famous for providing freedom for engineers to customize their environments & experiment with new tools... allowing for this freedom helps creativity and productivity.

  

  Alex Stamos
  • Freedom
  • Famous
  • Creativity

• If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on another team, and now he's 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid.

  

  Bobby Knight
  • Team
  • Travel

• Thankfully, gratefully, cancer did not get the best of me.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Cancer

• I believe there's no such thing as history; there's only historians, and in English, we've got this word 'his'tory, but what about her story? So that, in the end, the history of the world would be a history of every single one of its members, but of course, you could never get to grips with that.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • World
  • Believe
  • History

• I have had the privilege to be a member of many high-performance teams at NASA, both on and off the planet.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • High

• I don't really like the world 'muse.'

  

  Craig McDean
  • World

• We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

  

  Lauren Hutton
  • Life
  • Up

• Show me if I am wrong. It is easy to be mistaken. But do not tell me it is wicked of me to have thought all this, for it is not - I am certain it is not.

  

  James Anthony Froude

• 'The more I see of families ... the happier I am to be an orphan.'

  

  Bernard Cornwell

• Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Black
  • Heaven

• Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Mistake
  • Facts
  • Willing

• Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Law
  • Woman
  • Practice

• It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Easy
  • Demand
  • Worthless

• When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty.

  

  Rumi
  • You
  • Everyone
  • No One

• Worthless as wither'd weeds.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Worthless
  • Weeds