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 I don't care how simple or convenient it would make things for everyone else if I were to just lie down and die. I will not let myself be killed or captured!

  

  Kaja Foglio
  • Myself
  • To Be
  • Killed

• I would never predict a run like that. Last season, that's beyond reality. I think we can go 25-14. I think we can play 10 games over .500, even more than (that) over .500, and that would be a great run. Any time you go 30-15 or something like that, that's pretty incredible basketball.

  

  George Karl
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Running

• Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Important
  • Long
  • Price

• I've been very lucky in my employment over the years. You would think that the worst job I've ever had was as janitor, but it really wasn't, because I was a janitor at my dad's office building when I was younger.

  

  Chris Carmack
  • Lucky
  • Employment
  • Janitor

• Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service - are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and largely less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

  

  Michelle Alexander
  • Opportunity
  • Discrimination
  • Educational

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

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Employment
  • Console
  • Afflicted