Charlotte Quotes
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.
Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.
I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.
The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing.
I don't feel that I've accomplished anything. I feel that it'll be better when I won't care as much, but it's so difficult to let go and accept all the wrong notes.
I'd love to be able to write again, but I'm so repetitive. And it was all about fear. Never positive. Just indulgent about my sadness.
I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year.
The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.
I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.
I was very attached to my family when my father died. I was 19. I was about to go live with my father right when he died, so it was very intense.
Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced.
Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.
A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.
Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?
Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.
I think there is a shadow network where everybody has infiltrated in terms of hotel concierges, restaurants, will tip off journalists or paparazzi, the airlines, everywhere.
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.
Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.
When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.
I think that the role of curating an exhibition is to reanimate history and make it relevant to a contemporary viewer.
The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.
I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.
UNICEF is such a special organization, and to spread the word just makes me so happy.
