William Goffe Quotes

Great sorrows have no leisure to complain: Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain.

William Goffe

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• My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Energy
  • Problems
  • Clean

• I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • House
  • Feel

• I am Providence.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft

• There really isn't a formula for success.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Success

• It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now I've conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.

  

  Aileen Quinn
  • Up
  • Intimacy

• Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.

  

  Jami Gertz
  • Mom
  • Crazy

• I really value my anonymity and privacy.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Value

• Dad passed away in 2000, but he visits me all the time. He comes to me in different ways. So I have that connection with him, and that comforts me, to know that in time I can come back and still have that with my kids. It's not unfamiliar to me, that connection with the afterlife. I know it's real; I experience it all the time.

  

  Deborah Mailman
  • Time
  • Different
  • Real

• The more real I got on 'The Bourne Identity,' the more interesting it got. So 'Fair Game' was the chance to go a few more steps in that direction. In fact, I discovered this whole other world that I had ignored in the 'Bourne' franchise, which is the domestic life of a spy, and how you make the two halves of your life coexist.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.

  

  Li Keqiang

• God, I hope I wear this jersey forever.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • God
  • Hope
  • Forever

• Be an active participant in your community and country. Every small gesture makes up the big gestures. Resist, rinse, repeat.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Up
  • Country
  • Small

• [Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Moments
  • Doubt
  • See

• I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Food
  • Take

• Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Work
  • Mean

• I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Tea
  • Nasty
  • Habits

• People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • People
  • School
  • Kids

• Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude

  

  Paul Auster
  • Men
  • Book
  • Solitude

• I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Hinduism
  • Inclusive
  • Communalist

• There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?

  

  Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• Great sorrows have no leisure to complain: Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain.

  

  William Goffe
  • Sorrow
  • Complaining
  • Leisure