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William Congreve Quotes

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

William Congreve

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: January 24, 1670 - January 19, 1729

Topics

Fear Uncertainty Worth Almost Our

Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.

Flowers New Dead More Years Season

Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you're a poor woman and you are infertile, it's like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want.

Jennifer Weiner

Sad Money Woman You Bad Kind

I'm not sure plays tell people anything. I think plays include an audience in an experience that is happening in that moment, and that's the specialness. What people take away has almost as much to do with what they bring as what we do.

Anna D. Shapiro

Moment Experience People Think Tell

Each day, I come in with a positive attitude, trying to get better.

Positive Attitude Day Better Trying

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

Style Best Parenting Day Woman Book

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

Silvio Berlusconi

Best War Democracy Country Never

It's such an obedient way to be for a woman, to try to keep yourself in top shape, to follow all the rules and hope that will get you a measure of stability or happiness. That's part of the affluent suburban dream: to do everything perfectly in a long-winded way, to try to fulfill all the requirements.

Happiness Hope Woman Yourself You

The natural-gas industry is screaming for new markets, and there are only two sectors where these can be found: transportation and power generation.

Power Generation Transportation New

I always hate it when fashion is trivialised.

Hate Fashion Always

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

You Know Never Means Spoken Oracle

When I was playing with the Truckers, a lot of really good things happened. And we had a good trajectory for a long time. For that kind of a band, for the kind of music that I've always made, we had a lot of success, I think.

Success Good Music Time Good Things

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.

Politics Blue City Deep American

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