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Famous quotes containing the word webb:

    Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.
    —David Webb Peoples, U.S. screenwriter, and Ridley Scott. Roy Batty, Blade Runner, to the film’s protagonist as he dangles perilously from a beam (1982)

    Perhaps I stand now on the eve of a new life, shall watch the sun rise and disappear behind a black cloud extending out into a grey sky cover. I shall not be deceived by its glory. If it is to be so, there is work and the influence that work brings, but not happiness. Am I strong enough to face that?
    —Beatrice Potter Webb (1858–1943)

    Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it.... I ... dread idleness as if it were Hell.
    —Beatrice Potter Webb (1858–1943)