William Cowper Quotes
What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
Quotes to Explore
-
I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
-
I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
-
Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
-
It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
-
We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
-
Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
-
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
-
I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
-
Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
-
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
-
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
-
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
-
I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.
-
It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
-
A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.
-
There are some jobs where you think, 'There's no way! This would be too, too good. The universe would love me too much were it to actually happen.'
-
The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.
-
Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
-
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
-
He has held me when I have had no more strength and have wondered how I would ever make it. He has held me when I have felt defeated by all that I had to do. When I have run to my El Shaddai, I have never come away wanting. He is my all-sufficient One. O Beloved, do you understand? Have you experienced Him as your El Shaddai? If not, He is waiting - arms opened wide - for you.
-
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
-
Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.
-
Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income.
-
What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
