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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They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
Harold Rosenberg
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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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'Above all there is our fixed joint determination to build a strong and united Fiji, rich in diversity and pampered with tolerance, goodwill and understanding.' (Attributed to Mara by his successor as President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, 10 October 2005).
Kamisese Mara
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It is tempting to call for better leadership, but we probably expect too much from the leaders of the nations. Those nations are too big, the connections not strong enough, the commitment to the future not long enough. It is better to look smaller, to our now-smaller organisations, to local communities and cities, to families and clusters of friends, to small networks of portfolio people with time to give to something bigger than themselves. We have to fashion our own directions in our own places.
Charles Handy
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A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.
Homer
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If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.
Shinichi Suzuki
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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
