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.
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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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Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
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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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I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing . . . Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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Trees are your best antiques.
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I try to not think too much about how stuff gets seen as it's being done by a woman. Because if you think about it, then you end up thinking about how you're acting, and if you are thinking about how you're acting, then you are preoccupied and you're going to end up being insincere. You're kind of not present.
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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.
