William Congreve Quotes
I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
William Congreve
Quotes to Explore
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
Orlando Bloom
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
Larry King
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I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
Lamar Alexander
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When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.
Carl Hagelin
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I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.
Hal Newhouser
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My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.
Camila Alves
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I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
Parker Posey
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I look at the NFL and see how the transition has gone at quarterback. I might be coming along at a good time. For me personally, this is about doing the same thing I've been doing at USF - just smile, have fun, enjoy the experience, keep a positive attitude and encourage my teammates. I like to feed off the people around me.
B. J. Daniels
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Conflict is the pursuit of truth.
Patrick Lencioni
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I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.
Raf Simons
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The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
Sally Ride
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I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?
Alan Alda
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As long as I get to be doing what I love, which is making comedy and that kind of thing, I feel lucky that I get to.
Andy Samberg
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The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.
Alicia Keys
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This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.
G. Stanley Hall
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I just can't stand it [jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.
Van Morrison
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Love is subversive, undermining the propaganda of narrow self-interest. Love emphasizes connection, responsibility and the joy we take in each other. Therefore love (as opposed to unthinking devotion) is a danger to the status quo and we have been taught to find it embarrassing.
Aurora Levins Morales
