William Cowper Quotes

Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.

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• Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • History
  • True
  • Reality

• Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Food
  • Practice
  • Clear

• My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Hard Work

• Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
  • Difference
  • Crisis

• Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Relationship

• 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
  • Environment
  • Creative
  • Process

• Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Confidence

• Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.

  

  Garth Davis
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Reach

• Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Important
  • America
  • Success

• I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Movies
  • Actor
  • Image

• With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Money
  • True
  • Day

• We gave the world dab fever!

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Gave
  • Fever

• Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Some
  • Allah
  • Debates

• The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Me

• I didn't choose acting. The universe did.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Universe
  • Acting
  • Choose

• The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Man
  • Black

• When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • You
  • Exist
  • Debate

• Would it be a surprise if entrepreneurs recoil at the thought of consciously courting any person who has more power and money than they have?

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Money
  • Power
  • Thought

• Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds of propriety for our sakes, and throws herself unblushingly at our heads, we conclude it is either from a sudden and violent liking, or from extraordinary merit on our parts, either of which is enough to turn any man's head who has a single spark of gallantry or vanity in his composition.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Women
  • Enough
  • Reputation

• If you have breakouts, it can be really healing, it's a little bit stinky, but if you're not sleeping over at your boyfriend's, it's really effective.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Boyfriend
  • Sleeping
  • Breakouts

• Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.

  

  Alfred Delp
  • Today
  • Song
  • Reality

• I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Good
  • City
  • Collaboration

• Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.

  

  William Cowper
  • Fool
  • Youth
  • Shining