William Congreve Quotes

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

William Congreve

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• I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Music
  • Think
  • Morning

• Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Wants

• If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Believe
  • You
  • Intentions

• I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • World
  • Women
  • Peace

• I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Me
  • Missing
  • Musician

• God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • God
  • Alone
  • Taken

• Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Water

• ...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Up
  • Time
  • Tree

• Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • Truth

• Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Body
  • Hospital
  • Recipe

• In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.

  

  Dawn Steel

• I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good.

  

  Elizabeth Mitchell
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
  • Women
  • Friendship

• In my neighborhood growing up, 8, 10,12 kids were the norm. Those stay-at-home moms would handle so much physically and emotionally. Even in my early teens, I could tell those ladies were something.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Up
  • Home
  • Kids

• When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did my first three movies, all in Cuba.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • School

• When walking through the 'valley of shadows,' remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

  

  Austin O'Malley
  • Remember
  • Light
  • Walking

• If I'm recording a song, and it's kind of fuzzed out, but I've got this super candy melody, I feel nothing but freedom that I can just sing over the top, and it will be appreciated. It won't be like, 'What is he doing?'

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Song
  • Freedom
  • Candy

• There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart.

  

  Glen Campbell
  • Music
  • Country
  • Heart

• The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Effort

• I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity.

  

  Max Winkler
  • Good
  • Bad

• He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

  

  William Congreve