William Cowper Quotes

What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?

William Cowper

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• The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Up
  • World
  • Community

• People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Young
  • Danger

• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Nice
  • Boring
  • Too

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Know
  • Person
  • Actions

• The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• All I ever wanted to do is make music.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • Music
  • Wanted
  • Ever

• Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Time
  • Writing
  • College

• Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Strength
  • Graceful
  • Elves

• How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

  

  Maimonides
  • Power
  • Same
  • Distance

• You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Live
  • Today
  • Feelings

• The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.

  

  Washed Out
  • Together
  • Way
  • Kind

• Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Name
  • Down
  • Cotton

• No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

  

  Sally Ride
  • High
  • Think
  • Space

• When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

  

  Victor Spinetti
  • Life
  • Teach
  • Out

• I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Never
  • Chance
  • Wanted

• I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Nature
  • Girl
  • Me

• I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Life
  • War
  • Politics

• It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.

  

  Vinoba Bhave
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Accepted

• Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Opportunity
  • Leadership

• If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran
  • People
  • Career
  • Band

• We don't come up with product names like 'Cookie Sugar a la Mode.' We made a commitment that our brand is straightforward.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Up
  • Commitment

• What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?

  

  William Cowper
  • Life
  • Busy
  • Concern