William Cowper Quotes
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
Quotes to Explore
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
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How does one get bored of life?
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I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
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The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
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To hear the appreciation, the screams - that's what any of us need. We're at our best when we're wanted.
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn't a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn't an entry point.
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I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnerability, particularly when it comes to adult humans, who can be a rather unpredictable lot.
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I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
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There is no fyre without some smoke.
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Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your minds eye. Thats an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.
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It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?
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I broke my heart for every gain, to taste the sweet I faced the pain.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
