Colley Cibber Quotes

So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love,And thus the soldier arm'd with resolutionTold his soft tale, and was a thriving wooer.

Colley Cibber

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• The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Christian

• I really don't know life without wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Know
  • Wrestling

• Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Angry
  • Walk

• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Always

• I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Opinion
  • Facts
  • Students

• One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Courage
  • Pessimism

• I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Hope
  • Relationship
  • Our

• People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Believe
  • Politics

• Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Success
  • Attitude
  • Dangerous

• There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Diversity
  • Rights

• I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Good
  • Family
  • Bad

• I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Relationship

• I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Genius
  • Rules

• I don't feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Age
  • Feel

• 'Malthus,', says Vice President Al Gore in Earth in the Balance, 'was right in predicting that the population would grow geometrically.' Al, as the father of four children, should know.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Father
  • Earth

• We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Work
  • May

• I write... for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is... a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb-the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Dumb

• 'She is becoming afraid to go out. Windows are broken. She finds excreta pushed through her letterbox. When she goes to the shops, she is followed by children, charming, wide-grinning piccaninnies. They cannot speak English, but one word they know. 'Racialist,' they chant.'

  

  Enoch Powell
  • Children
  • She
  • English

• I want to be a soldier as my father was.

  

  Kaspar Hauser
  • Father
  • Want
  • Soldier

• For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier.

  

  William Petty
  • Soldier
  • Merchants
  • Seamen

• Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don't know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him.

  

  Tulsi Gabbard
  • Enemy
  • Soldier
  • Defeat

• So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love,And thus the soldier arm'd with resolutionTold his soft tale, and was a thriving wooer.

  

  Colley Cibber
  • Soldier