William Cowper Quotes
Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.
Quotes to Explore
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I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
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I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
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Silence is my dignity.
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
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I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.
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Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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We treated all of the dead with dignity.
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I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
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In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.
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The man who is secure within himself has no need to prove anything with force, so he can walk away from a fight with dignity and pride. He is the true martial artist--a man so strong inside that he has no need to demonstrate his power.
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If once a man has come to the idea of a service which is not purely moral, but is ...... In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. What has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; what on the other hand is raised above all price and therefore admits of no equivalent has a dignity.
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These days, you don't just break into comics once. You have to break in again and again after each job is finished.
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It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.
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Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous. Now it's too complex, it's a mix. Different cultures in collision. I think it starts to be necessary to have a government institution to deal with cultural affairs.
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Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.
