William Cowper Quotes

Oh, popular applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms? The wisest and the best feel urgent need Of all their caution in thy gentlest gales; But swell'd into a gust--who then, alas! With all his canvas set, and inexpert, And therefore, heedless, can withstand thy power?

William Cowper

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• I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Kind
  • Enjoy
  • Plan

• I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Playing
  • Tennis
  • Eat

• Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
  • Rugby

• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Happy
  • Feel
  • Guilty

• One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Up
  • Free
  • Morning

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Dream

• I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Money
  • Love

• I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Doing
  • My Life

• When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Work
  • See
  • Audiences

• I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Independent
  • Democrat

• Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Heart
  • Done
  • Broken

• I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.

  

  Jack Ma
  • School
  • High
  • City

• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Money
  • Through
  • Some

• When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Girl
  • My Own
  • Bedroom

• If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Grow
  • Others
  • Invest

• Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.

  

  Madame Roland
  • Joy
  • Deep
  • Emotion

• The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Credit

• When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Country
  • Earth
  • Wish

• I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

  

  Bruce Hornsby Bruce Hornsby & The Range

• I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Dance
  • inspirational
  • Photograhy

• Oh, popular applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms? The wisest and the best feel urgent need Of all their caution in thy gentlest gales; But swell'd into a gust--who then, alas! With all his canvas set, and inexpert, And therefore, heedless, can withstand thy power?

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Sweet