William Congreve Quotes
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'
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Your primary role should be to share what you know, not to tell people how things should be done.
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Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
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One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.
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Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
