William Davenant (D'Avenant) Quotes
Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.
Quotes to Explore
-
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
-
It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
-
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
-
Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
-
Money has no moral opinions.
-
Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
-
If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
-
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
-
To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
-
One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
-
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
-
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
-
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
-
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
-
I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.
-
This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
-
I don't know anything about music.
-
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
-
The way forward is to learn to see every startup in any industry as a grand experiment.
-
If love or non – violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
-
We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
-
The young man smiled—certainly a very personable young man—and explained that the light was no longer strong enough to do any more. Again in this explanation did he call me gnädiges Fräulein, and again was I touched by so much innocence. And his German, too, was touching; it was so conscientiously grammatical, so laboriously put together, so like pieces of Goethe learned by heart.
-
Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.
