Anne Bronte Quotes

Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.

Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter disappointments and frustrations.

It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.

If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.

Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.

It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Not that I believe you can have it all: I believe you can have it all, just not at the same time.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

You can't be rigid in this business [politics].

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

Rules should not be barriers; they should be guides.

I get a little uptight if things aren't going the way I think they should be going.

You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.

If you get stuck too much with the way you want the world to be, you will find that the world passes you by.

As an actor, I do not come with preconceived notions. I am like clay that can be moulded or like a sponge that can absorb things. I do what the director wants me to do.

We all can't stay busy doing exactly what we want to do.

Everybody in the world knows that plans tend to change.