William Cowper Quotes
A Christian's wit is offensive light, A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight; Vig'rous in age as in the flush of youth, 'Tis always active on the side of truth.William Cowper
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
Randa Haines -
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
Sam Walton -
The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz -
Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
Kate Spade -
The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
Natalia Kills
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
Gary Bauer -
Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
Fisher Stevens -
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
Barbara Kingsolver -
Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
Olivier Theyskens -
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
Nancy Reagan -
My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
Tamara Ecclestone -
I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
Hampton Sides -
I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
Ranbir Kapoor -
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo -
People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
Hansika Motwani
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It's one of the greatest honors I could ever imagine - to be able to represent my country and to be able to wear "USA" on my back. It's an incredible honor. It's an accomplishment of the past four year but of a life of dreaming and working hard and doing everything I can in pursuit of this goal.
Elana Meyers -
I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that dear Octavia has a reading age of 28. I remember trying to read 'In Cold Blood' at the age of twelve, and realising that just because you can read book doesn't mean you should.
Meg Rosoff -
Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.
Bill Clinton -
We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.
James Laughlin -
A Christian's wit is offensive light, A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight; Vig'rous in age as in the flush of youth, 'Tis always active on the side of truth.
William Cowper