William Davenant (D'Avenant) Quotes
O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.
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Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.
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You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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He awoke-and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Great and greater yet: the dream grew as he became fully conscious, the dream and the yearning. He could almost feel the enveloping presence of the other world, which only Government agents and high officials had seen. A clerk like himself? Not likely.
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When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.
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There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
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And after they have started the action will always look, as it did to the frightened men in the Federal Reserve Board in February 1929, like a decision in favor of immediate as against ultimate death. As we have seen, the immediate death not only has the disadvantage of being immediate but of identifying the executioner.
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O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.
