William Cowper Quotes
Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.William Cowper
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.
Taron Egerton -
I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
Sammy Sosa -
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
Washington Irving -
You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
Rand Paul -
Silence is my dignity.
Hansika Motwani -
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
Baltasar Gracian
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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.
Ingrid Betancourt -
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.
Quentin Tarantino -
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Ovid -
We treated all of the dead with dignity.
Harry Anderson -
I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.
A. J. Jacobs -
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. Forster
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Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
Vartan Gregorian -
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Dag Hammarskjold -
There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
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.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
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.
Ed Parker -
Malcolm X envisions a broad-based pluralistic united front, which is spearheaded by the Nation of Islam, but mobilizing integrationist organizations, non-political organizations, civic groups, all under the banner of building black empowerment, human dignity, economic development, political mobilization.
Manning Marable
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Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.
William Shakespeare -
I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.
Damian Marley -
The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.
Banana Yoshimoto -
Political movements always belong to the young.
Harvey Fierstein -
A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.
Boots Riley -
Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.
William Cowper