William Congreve Quotes
A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
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I believed I was invincible.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.
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The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. He justifies his existence by a movement which, like freedom, springs from his heart but which leads outside of himself.
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There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.
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Whose secret Presence, through Creation's veins Running Quicksilver-like eludes your pains; Taking all shapes from Mah to Mahi; and They change and perish all - but He remains;
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A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
