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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'
-
On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
-
I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
-
I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
-
My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
-
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.
-
It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
-
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.
-
I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
-
Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
-
I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
-
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?
-
If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
-
I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
-
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.
-
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
-
Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
-
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.
-
The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.
-
Given the knee-jerk patriotism of recent war movies, it's discouraging to see 'Windtalkers' evade pertinent facts that could have recast the doubled-edged issues of racism and loyalty and made them relevant to contemporary times.
-
The wise man is not waiting for the realness of the world to prove itself to him. How can one be an authority before the experiencing of this realness? My master taught me-and to me it seems chash, meaning correct-that you must not defend against the entering of knowledge.
-
I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
-
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.
