Anne Bronte Quotes

I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.

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• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• Art lies by its own artifice.

  

  Ovid
  • Art
  • Lies
  • Own

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Great
  • Political
  • Change

• The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Society
  • Marriage
  • Short

• I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Remember

• You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • You
  • Never
  • Bend

• Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Israel
  • Bank
  • West

• I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Up
  • Different
  • Want

• I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • More
  • Cast
  • Goofy

• I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Players
  • Rather
  • Tricky

• We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • World
  • Power
  • History

• If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Taken
  • Voice
  • See

• I don't think I'm ever really going to run the risk of disappearing into a Marvel franchise. I just don't know how I would fit into a catsuit.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Think
  • Know
  • Risk

• I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Fear

• Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

  

  Imelda May
  • Great
  • Music
  • Coming

• Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Single
  • Childhood
  • Child

• I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national security and criminal activity may justify some exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of surveillance. But that is all the more reason to safeguard human rights and fundamental freedoms.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Internet
  • Security
  • Abuse

• I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate.

  

  bell hooks
  • Hate
  • Deep

• And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Tears
  • Blood
  • Heal

• My political ideas and things like that, even my religion, I try to keep close to me because it's a personal thing, and I don't shove it down people's throats. I don't condemn any artist that wants to do that, like the Baldwins. That's their choice. But in my world, I'm just an entertainer.

  

  Donny Osmond
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• I was very naughty. That's the reason I didn't go very much to the university, because I was partying with my friends more than going to the university.

  

  Bianca Balti
  • Friends
  • Naughty

• I think there are always people that you meet in your life that scare you a little, but not because of the terror in their eyes so much as their unpredictability.

  

  Joshua Sasse
  • People
  • Life
  • Unpredictability

• I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • World
  • Women
  • Love