William Wycherley Quotes
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.William Wycherley
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
Ted Nelson -
You can't change the market; the market just is.
Wayne Rogers -
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Samuel Butler -
My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
Patrice Leconte -
I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
J. G. Ballard -
Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
Palmer Luckey
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
Ram Dass -
I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
Halsey -
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
N. Scott Momaday -
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
Yaya Toure -
Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
Nancy Farmer -
I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
Gary Sinise
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
Venus Williams -
I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
Gary Sherman -
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Samuel Butler -
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
Kate Klise
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We cannot continue to get caught up in having material abundance and yet be fundamentally and spiritually broke.
T.I. -
I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.
L. Todd Rose -
For emotional reasons, connected with my affection for my parents, I was a reluctant atheist, but giving up religion brought peace of mind because intellectual conflict was resolved.
J. J. C. Smart -
We cannot escape from our daily routine, because it will go with us wherever we go.... God must be sought and found in the things of our world. By regarding our daily duties as something performed for the honour and glory of God, we can convert what was hitherto soul-killing monotony, to a living worship of God in all our actions. Everyday life must become itself our prayer.
Karl Edward Wagner -
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
William Wycherley