William Cowper Quotes

Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.

William Cowper

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• There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Women
  • Business
  • Man

• Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Law

• I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Tears
  • Satisfy
  • Meal

• I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • City
  • Habits

• I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Life
  • Family
  • Surviving

• I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Hope
  • More
  • Going

• Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Like
  • Sense

• My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Father
  • Future

• There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Prove

• We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

  

  Yuan T. Lee
  • World
  • Good
  • Business

• I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Know
  • Better
  • Right

• If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Best
  • Company
  • Longevity

• Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • High
  • Pretty

• Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Work
  • Will
  • Well

• It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Music
  • School
  • Age

• I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Up
  • Creative
  • Commitment

• I don't actually watch many shows. I will either watch movies or football. I enjoy to watch games in the Premier League and will also watch movies a lot as well. That is how I relax.

  

  Xavi
  • Football
  • Movies
  • Relax

• The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Work
  • Hate
  • Drug

• Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion.

  

  Sherrod Brown
  • People
  • Children
  • Compassion

• Im in the public eye. I know Im not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

  

  Nicole Appleton All Saints
  • Eye
  • Walking
  • Persons

• What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Hurt

• I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • People
  • Hate

• Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.

  

  William Cowper
  • Compassion
  • Compass
  • Sail