Anne Bronte Quotes

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

Anne Bronte

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• We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Best
  • Easy
  • Forgive

• Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Work
  • Men
  • Crazy

• I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Chance
  • Director
  • Page

• I am a first-time director given an opportunity to pursue an artistic ambition I would not likely have the chance to elsewhere. The budget is excruciatingly tight, I am regularly abused and I expect to be fired sometime before we shoot. It's nice to see that, at Miramax, continuity has been maintained.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Nice

• A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Passion
  • Grand

• Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Illusions
  • Stimulation
  • Street Life

• Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Book
  • Facebook
  • President Bush

• Now after arrest, within three months, the consular services will have to be made available.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Services
  • Arrest

• In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World
  • Business
  • Miracle

• These were two big wins for us and it brings us closer to .500. Our younger players are coming through for us in big ways and we've had some outstanding pitching from our starters.

  

  Vance Law
  • Players
  • Ways
  • Coming

• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  

  Will Durant
  • Education
  • Ignorance
  • Discovery

• A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Women
  • Shadow
  • Follows

• And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Work
  • Party
  • Texas

• I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Thought

• I’m young, I’m handsome, I’m fast, I’m pretty, and can’t possibly be beat. They must fall in the round I call.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Beat
  • Handsome
  • Round

• We Corbis make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Images
  • Nobel Prize
  • Sunsets

• The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

  

  Charles Garfield
  • Facts
  • Differences
  • Excellence

• There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Employment
  • Console
  • Afflicted