Anne Bronte Quotes

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

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• I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Best
  • Monster
  • Mess

• A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • History
  • Game
  • Missing

• I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Director

• It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Good
  • Men
  • Genius

• Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • People
  • Women
  • Parents

• I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Love
  • Father
  • Night

• My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Want
  • Child
  • Cancer

• If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Food
  • Lost

• When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Men
  • Words
  • Find

• The Windrush era is a very important part of British history as it helps us understand how and why we became the multicultural society we are today, and also helps us understand the history of race relations in this country.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Important
  • Country
  • Why

• We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Light
  • Sun

• He'd been mistaken in thinking that if he killed himself the sordid bourgeois world would perish with him.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • World
  • Thinking

• Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

  

  E. B. White
  • Mind

• Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Kids
  • True

• 'Now it seems that Roger has once more taken up with Miss Roswyn. I can’t say that I approve, but he has not troubled to ask my advice.' She heaved a sigh. 'But I am sure that the world will never go precisely to my liking.''Does it for anyone?' asked Bernard Bickel with good-natured cynicism.'Probably not, and I must reconcile myself to the fact.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I was born a Hindu because I had no control over this, but I shall not die a Hindu.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Control
  • Die

• I myself am part of the youth movement. However, after a long discussion, it appears that many of the youth demands and needs, like access to education, jobs, and equitable growth, have been addressed under different goals and targets and youth enjoy the benefits of everything else in the report.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Different
  • Long
  • Education

• I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• Anticipation, she would say, locks you into a mind-set, which, whether you realize it or not, dictates your actions, even though they may be the wrong ones. If you don’t anticipate, your mind is clear, your actions develop as the situation unfolds.

  

  Eric Van Lustbader
  • Actions
  • Develop
  • Anticipation

• I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • Beautiful
  • Painting
  • Romantic

• If you're not willing to accept the pain real values incur, don't bother going to the trouble of formulating a values statement. You'll be better off without one.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Real
  • Pain
  • Better

• But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Rose