William Congreve Quotes
Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
Quotes to Explore
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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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Everything is real on me.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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If you have children and want to give your future self a present, record their laughter as toddlers. When they're older and away from you, you might find that clip in the middle of the day, and it will transport you as surely as if you had a time machine.
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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
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The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of it.
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All my music is autobiographical, and that's the reason why people like my music. They know when I'm saying something on a song, I mean it. It comes from a real place and captures the realness in my life.
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Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
