William Congreve Quotes

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.

William Congreve

• Waiting
• Loss
• Guilt
• Confusion
• Innocence

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• My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Change

• Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Actor

• Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Hair
  • Never
  • Saturday

• What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Job
  • Food
  • Cool

• Money has no moral opinions.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Money
  • Moral
  • Opinions

• My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Dream
  • Goal
  • Win

• I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.

  

  Eddy Grant
  • Song
  • Composition
  • Original

• Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Poverty
  • Roads

• Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • God
  • Same
  • Nothing

• I really only worked for about a month on 'Meatballs.' What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with 'Animal House' except the producer. So he thought he'd better start directing.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • House
  • Thought
  • Animal

• When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Together
  • Present
  • Story

• Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Laws
  • Legal
  • Houses

• My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Hope
  • Name
  • Middle

• When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Children
  • Family
  • Man

• Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Myself

• Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Reason
  • Everything
  • Sure

• I did plays in high school, and I usually got cast in the comic role, which I really enjoyed.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• If I've learned anything through all of this, it's that each and every day is a canvas waiting to be painted - an opportunity for love, for fun, for living, for learning.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Fun
  • Opportunity
  • Learning

• When I first started submitting my work professionally - and we're talking years and years ago - I had no patience for editorial response times. I hated waiting to hear back from people, hated waiting to see my work in print.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • People
  • Work
  • Waiting

• It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Book
  • Waiting
  • Finished

• All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • Up
  • America
  • War

• The only thing I collect is art. I collect it because I like looking at it. A lot of it is really personal stuff that my friends have made, paintings that my husband's mother made, and things that I bought. I buy abstract art on eBay, and I buy some outsider art on eBay, or what is called folk art, I buy a lot of. I have a lot of professional art work as well as more stuff my friends' kids make. To have a wall of art to look at, I feel really surrounded by love, because so much of the work is related to my friendships.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Work
  • Art
  • Friends

• Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.

  

  William Congreve
  • Waiting
  • Loss
  • Guilt