William Davenant (D'Avenant) Quotes
All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.
William Davenant
Quotes to Explore
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
Sam Jaeger
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The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.
Vince Cable
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I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
O. Winston Link
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Napoleon Hill
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.
Rachel Nichols
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
G. Stanley Hall
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
J. M. Coetzee
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Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.
Gary Bauer
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The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
Samantha Harvey
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I had the strong sense that I really wanted to be a SEAL, and I started thinking, 'Look, I don't ever want to look back and feel I have any regrets.'
Gabriel E. Gomez
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Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.
Safra A. Catz
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Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
Sam Neill
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California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.
Xavier Becerra
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The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.
Taye Diggs
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Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
C. S. Lewis
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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
Oliver Joseph Lodge
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Williams is one of the big names in F1 with a really strong pedigree, so it is an honour to be driving for them.
Pastor Maldonado
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Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the Gulf, or in Alaska, we will continue to wring the last out of anyplace else.
Carl Safina
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I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics.
Aarti Sequeira
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
Wayne Swan
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It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.
E. B. White
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All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.
William Davenant
