Charles Bronson Quotes

I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.

Charles Bronson

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• I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Children

• The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hand
  • Son
  • Same

• I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Think

• On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn that we can never give up, knowing that with the right tools and energy, we can reverse any decree or karma. So, which is it? Let the Light decide, or never give up? The answer is: both.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Light

• When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hand

• You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Power
  • High
  • Change

• Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • American
  • Hand

• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Dad
  • Hand
  • Air

• Rather than support workers at home or investments in public schools, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan support the Bush-era tax cuts for the very wealthy. They want to hand over our schools to private corporations.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Home
  • Want
  • Support

• Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Up
  • Different
  • Guy

• Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Hand
  • Enough
  • U.S.

• Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Hand
  • Moment
  • Duck

• When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Always

• We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Up
  • Hand

• I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Life
  • Work
  • Kids

• The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Ability
  • Aggressive
  • Respected

• I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

  

  Zendaya
  • Live
  • Me
  • Die

• I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.

  

  J. Cole
  • School
  • Play
  • Instruments

• Being pregnant was very much like falling in love. You are so open. You are so overjoyed. There's no words that can express having a baby growing inside of you so, of course, you want to scream it out and tell everyone.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Want
  • Words
  • Growing

• Everyone needs some time to themselves.

  

  Anna Neagle
  • Time

• So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.

  

  Betty Buckley
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Passion

• Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Happy
  • First
  • Musicians

• I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.

  

  Charles Bronson
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