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

• A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• 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

• Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Up

• 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

• Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time

  

  Winona LaDuke
  • People

• There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Photograph

• You never know when the devil might come calling.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Never
  • Devil
  • Calling

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

  

  William Congreve