William Cowper Quotes
The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
William Cowper
Quotes to Explore
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Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'
Carlos Pena, Jr.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
Jack Germond
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
Rachel Kushner
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
Rajneesh
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
Utah Phillips
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
Laura Donnelly
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
H. L. Mencken
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
Edna Ferber
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I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
Madchen Amick
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The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.
Fareed Zakaria
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It's a bird … it's a plane … no, it's KernelMan, faster than a speeding bullet, to your rescue. Doing new kernel versions in under 5 seconds flat …
Linus Torvalds
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Sometimes leaders slide from the role of freedom fighter into the presidency, which they may be unsuited for, but everyone accepts it until they hit the bump in the road.
Kofi Annan
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He that thinks diversion may not lie in hard and painful labour, forgets the early rising, hard riding, heat, cold and hunger of huntsmen, which is yet known to be the constant recreation of men of the greatest condition.
John Locke
Nazareth
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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
George Matthew Adams
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
William Cowper
