William Cowper Quotes
Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.William Cowper
Quotes to Explore
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Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.
Walter Johnson -
I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.
Yitzhak Shamir -
I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
Imogen Cunningham -
When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
Orison Swett Marden -
The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
Bear Grylls
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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
Edgar Lee Masters -
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vince Lombardi -
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Victor Cherbuliez -
If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.
J. K. Simmons -
There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
Dana Perino -
We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.
Valerie Harper
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Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.
Victoria Principal -
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson -
Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.
Samira Wiley -
Only the insecure strive for security.
Wayne Dyer -
I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'
Naomi Klein -
An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
H. P. Lovecraft
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It's not superstition, but I do everything exactly the same on game days. I'm a creature of habit. I eat the same breakfast, and then I drive the same way to practice. Then I come back and eat the same exact same lunch before every game.
Kris Humphries -
I am fine battling lions, tigers, snakes, bulls, even hippopotamuses, but not lizards.
Nia Sharma -
Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. What! Than ten hours over your books on your knees?
B. B. Warfield -
One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance here, line there, a sense of opulence in this place or sparseness in that; to suit your surroundings, your mood, the weather, the occasion. In a word, to do as you please, just as, if you could, you might paint a picture.
Constance Spry -
Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.
William Cowper