Anne Bronte Quotes

To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.

Anne Bronte

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• As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Take
  • Safer
  • Begging

• Stand in your own truth and you will command respect.

  

  Tairrie B
  • Truth
  • Respect
  • Command

• Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still has to go through it. And by going into it, one finally achieves a real command of oneself. One gains a thorough knowledge of oneself for the first time.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Time
  • Real
  • Knowledge

• It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

  

  Sophocles
  • People
  • Laws
  • Command

• The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

  

  Sophocles
  • Place
  • Hearing
  • Command

• Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.

  

  Euripides
  • Home
  • Mankind
  • Command

• If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.

  

  Socrates
  • Little
  • Command
  • Enforce

• If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Choices
  • Firsts
  • Bird

• Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Glory

• The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to be wanting. For it may be said of men in general that they are ungrateful, voluble, dissemblers, anxious to avoid danger, and covetous of gain; as long as you benefit them, they are entirely yours; they offer you their blood, their goods, their life, and their children, as I have before said, when the necessity is remote; but when it approaches, they revolt.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Loved
  • Feared
  • Safer

• If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Fault
  • Command
  • General

• Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Attention
  • Band
  • Audience

• On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Woman
  • Command
  • Necessary

• The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Hands
  • Garden
  • Command

• You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

  

  George Eliot
  • Words
  • Argument
  • Command

• I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.

  

  George Eliot
  • Light
  • Universe
  • Human

• Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Moving
  • Succeed
  • Lasts

• No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Ethics
  • Mathematics
  • Command

• Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Nature
  • Wonder
  • Painting

• I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • You
  • Try
  • Where

• I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Bad
  • Mom
  • Morning

• To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Command
  • Safer
  • Coax