William Congreve Quotes
Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
William Congreve
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Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.
Sam Kean
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.
J. C. Watts
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I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.
Garry Hynes
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
Ira Glass
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Edith Wharton
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You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
Felix Dennis
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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
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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
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I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
Tadao Ando
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Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
Irwin Thomas
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In 2007, I hit 50 home runs. That was pretty cool. I never thought I'd be able to do that. At the time, I didn't even think it was that big of a deal for some reason. But now, looking back, I realize it was pretty cool.
Prince Fielder
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A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
Jane Austen
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'Silicon Valley' likes being satirized. They've all been waiting for someone to come along and make fun of it.
Daniel Lyons
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Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
Wendy Kopp
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Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
William Congreve
