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

• In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.

  

  Walker Percy
  • World
  • Goodness
  • Defeated

• It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Passion
  • Reason
  • Victory

• There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Friend
  • Companion
  • Qualifications

• The legs are the wheels of creativity.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Creativity
  • Legs
  • Wheels

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

  

  William Wycherley
  • Goodness
  • Companion