Quotes of: Jane-austen Keyword

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.

Wangari Maathai

Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?

Edward T. Hall

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Margaret Mead

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Ruth Benedict

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Ruth Benedict

It's not enough to say you want to lose fifty, seventy, or a hundred and twenty pounds. Because once you hit those magic numbers, what happens then? Where is the motivation to continue with this new lifestyle you've created for yourself? I think you'...

Counting Calories: A True Story From An Average Jane Who Lost Over 120 Pounds In Less Than 6 Months

Having low self-esteem and a shield of lard are not guarantees of safety. Having a warrior spirit, high self worth (most people are assaulted by someone they know, so if you think you're only worthy of hanging out with controlling low-life's, that's ...

Counting Calories: A True Story From An Average Jane Who Lost Over 120 Pounds In Less Than 6 Months

When compiled its list of the one hundred best novels written in English, do you know that was number twelve?" She stopped pacing and glared at Jane. "And do you know where was?" she asked. She looked at the four of them in turn, but nobody answered ...

Jane Bites Back

Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in...

Jane Eyre

Divine justice pursued its course; disasters came thick on me: I was forced to pass through the valley of the shadow of death. His chastisements are mighty; and one smote me which has humbled me for ever. You know I was proud of my strength: but what...

Jane Eyre

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds ...

Jane Eyre

Jane Bennet: How do you like it here in Hertfordshire, Mr. Bingley? Mr. Bingley: Very much. Elizabeth Bennet: The library at Netherfield, I've heard, is one of the finest in the country. Mr. Bingley: Yes, fills me with guilt. Not a very good reader, ...

Pride & Prejudice

Especially for upwardly mobile young females, declaring one's enthusiasm for Austen (whose heroines almost always move up in social and economic status as a result of the sterling marital alliances they form) has been a classic means of indicating on...

Love

You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.

Carine Roitfeld

Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

Jane Eyre

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

Jane Eyre

Superstition was with me at that moment, but it was not yet her hour for complete victory.

Jane Eyre

Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored...

Jane Was Here

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

The Nature Of Natural History

Gimme an S! A T! An O! A C! Followed by a K-H-O-L-M! What's it spell? HEAD FUCK. - Jane

Lover Unbound

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

George Andrew Olah