William Cowper Quotes
Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.
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Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
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There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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Where there is love there is life.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'
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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
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It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.
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I can't claim my grandfather's work has influenced mine directly, but his life certainly inspired me to follow this path.
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The Upper Palaeolithic figures known as ‘wounded men’ occur at Cougnac and Pech Merle, two sites in the Quercy district of France.
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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
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His speech is hesitant because he is used to crossing out his words. It is true that after several redrafts, his style may be crystal clear. But when he takes the floor, he no longer has any means at his disposal to correct his stumbling speech.
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While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
