William Davenant (D'Avenant) Quotes
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When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
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It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
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Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
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Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.
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The federal government has invested billions in Metro, yet the system is not safe and is not reliable.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.
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I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.
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Even if a relationship doesn't work out, you can always take something positive from something negative. You never know what's around the corner.
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I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!
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I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience.
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction, afraid to draw the latch, whereas he should then come boldly for shelter as a child into his father's house.
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'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'
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The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.
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Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
