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

• There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Women
  • Why

• 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

• I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • People
  • Different

• 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

• Fifty million Americans have dementia and other brain illnesses. To gather together the minds that exist and see how we can tackle these ailments together, that is the work that is in front of us: to have a map of the human brain, an understanding of the roadways, and an understanding of the traffic on the roadways.

  Chaka Fattah
  • Work
  • Together
  • Understanding

• To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • Music
  • Art

• I think a person who is disabled should be disabled by no act of their own. If you become disabled because of alcoholism, drugs, or things of that nature, I do not think those conditions qualify someone to be called disabled. I think those conditions result from personal decisions.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Nature

• If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

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

  

  William Congreve