William Cowper Quotes

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

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• Historical science is being left in the dust.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Being
  • Dust

• We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.

  

  Johan Rockstrom
  • Different
  • May

• Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

  

  John McCain
  • War
  • Fool

• There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Gods
  • Dust

• Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Dust
  • Ashes
  • Amen

• Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Up
  • Women
  • Winning

• Believe it or not, when I get in contention I can still hit the shots.

  

  Padraig Harrington
  • Believe
  • Shots
  • Contention

• When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Live
  • Color
  • Missing

• Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Dust

• There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Book
  • Feeling

• The mind of a the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Thing

• Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Life
  • Music
  • Everyday

• Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • People
  • Writing
  • Enough

• Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Dust
  • Minute
  • Assimilated

• We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Heart
  • Today
  • Suffering

• ... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Light
  • Joy
  • Everyday

• Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Knowledge
  • Doubt
  • Contention

• You have to remember where all this dust is coming from, ... There is a political advantage to the opposition to have this happen.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Remember
  • Political
  • Advantage

• Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on, in secula seculorum, until the planet’s crust crumbles to dust.

  

  Edgar Saltus
  • Desire
  • Pain
  • Dust

• I don't have the time to steal other people's material even if I wanted to. The reason why these rumors got started is that I don't really contest them because I don't believe they deserve contesting. I really don't.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Believe
  • Reason
  • Deserve

• I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Remember

• Is the Moon made out of green cheese? No, it's American cheese.

  

  William Anders
  • Moon
  • Green
  • Cheese

• Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

  

  William Cowper
  • Dust
  • Contests
  • Contention