William Wycherley Quotes

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

William Wycherley

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• I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Stereotypes

• We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Look
  • Terrorism
  • Group

• You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Focus

• Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Why
  • Think
  • Death

• I'm not a fan of Twitter.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Fan
  • Twitter

• By the time they're ready to be thrown away, most shoes are thoroughly comfortable

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Time
  • Inspiration
  • Shoes

• I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Excitement

• The interesting thing for me is that everybody felt that I was really wild when i was unbalanced and desperate to communicate something and didn't have a sense of purpose. But I've never been so crazy and wild as I am with my son or as I am now.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Interesting
  • Crazy
  • Purpose

• It's hard no to work, so I find a way to put myself back to work. And I think it's important, in between projects, for me to sit down with who I've just become and allow her to continue to evolve and find a home inside me before I go and become somebody else. But I think I also need to learn to relax and not prepare too much, just enjoy life. I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don't have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Rest

• The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Spiritual
  • Travel
  • Poverty

• The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.

  

  Kabir

• I believe that Streamline should be part of our toolbox of things that we use at the border. And there needs to be a variety of things that we use at the border to get the most effective enforcement strategy. And so really it's a resource issue more than anything else.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • I Believe
  • Strategy
  • Resource

• Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Families
  • Resistance
  • Occupation

• Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer diseases.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Animal
  • Cancer
  • Goodness

• I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Different
  • Know

• My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Fool
  • Emotion
  • Aim

• I think technology and smartphones created a huge paradigm shift that we can't fully comprehend, and I think in a lot of ways things are changing faster than we can really process.

  

  Weyes Blood
  • Technology
  • Changing
  • Paradigm

• Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

  

  William Wycherley
  • Goodness
  • Companion