Anne Bronte Quotes

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

Anne Bronte

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• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Up
  • Long
  • Guy

• Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Writing
  • Magic
  • Changed

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Future
  • Overpopulation

• There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Like
  • Year
  • Leak

• When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Women
  • History

• You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movie

• I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Work
  • Important
  • Education

• It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Something
  • Fault
  • Hang

• The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Why
  • Know
  • Problem

• When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Up
  • You
  • First

• White lies keep social dignity intact and are far more prevalent than most people realize. Several studies have found that an average person is lied to from 10 to 200 times a day - mostly just to keep a conversation going, to avoid conflict, or to establish a connection with someone.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • People
  • Day
  • Lies

• Tread the track of life with utmost caution. But let this not deter you from taking giant leaps towards your goals. Excessive caution may reduce your speed to move ahead in life.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Life
  • May
  • Goals

• Only the heelOf splendid steelShall stand secure on sliding fate,When golden navies weep their freight.

  

  Arthur Quiller-Couch
  • Fate

• Logician: A cat has four paws. Old Gentleman: My dog had four paws. Logician: Then it's a cat. Old Gentleman: So my dog is a cat? Logician: And the contrary is also true.

  

  Logic
  • True
  • Dog
  • Cat

• So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.

  

  Donald Trump
  • American
  • Words
  • Small

• I ask my close friends to give me feedback.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Friends

• We don't know who Donald Trump is.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Trump

• Before 1914 had well begun to make the world safe for hypocrisy, these stories had blended into one continuous and fairly long Comedy of Evasion, called then In the Flesh, but a little later rechristened The Cream of The Jest...

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • World
  • Long
  • Comedy

• The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• In the black sky no star is seen, somewhere in ambush lurks the Angel of Death, but the spices tongues of the masqueraders are loose and shameless A shout: 'Make way for the hero!' Ah yes. Displacing the tall one, he will step forth now without fail and sing to us about holy vengeance...

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Death
  • Black
  • Star

• Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Hero
  • Foe
  • Disarm