Anne Bronte Quotes
His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.
Quotes to Explore
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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I think college is something I want to experience just to have the experience, really. I think about going to college all the time.
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An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing.
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One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.
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I'd change nothing in my career path. I was never built for being a handsome teenage star. That's just not in my psyche, I think. I would have hated to have grown up famous.
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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.
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His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.
