William Cowper Quotes

I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.

William Cowper

• Mercy
• Doors
• Loneliness
• Forsaken

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• I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Art
  • Energy

• I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Same
  • Walk

• I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Listen
  • Radio
  • Too Much

• There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Soul
  • Spiritual
  • Crime

• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Earth
  • Child
  • Spring

• Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Battle
  • Greatest

• My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Me
  • Talent
  • Taught

• Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Control

• I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Day

• Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Happiness
  • Fair
  • Economists

• New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • World
  • America
  • Small

• I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Never

• In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Music
  • Power

• I don't really see myself as an accomplished person. I just worked hard and got opportunities to do what I love. I've been blessed.

  

  Malese Jow
  • Love
  • Person
  • Blessed

• After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • History
  • Knowledge
  • Lying

• I was madly in love with life.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Life
  • Love
  • Madly

• It was a lot to carry out of a childhood-all those textured layers of thwarted dreams rumbling under the fifties patina-but a lot of us did it. In those anicured lives and choreographed marriages there was an often-pronounced loneliness, an emptiness that we would try to fill with our own accomplishments. And our role, the one we would have so much trouble trying to shed later, was simply to be the best little girls in the world, the high- achieving, make-no-waves, roperly behaved little kittens.

  

  Anne Fleming
  • Role
  • Loneliness
  • Accomplishments

• Say yes to everything.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Everything
  • Say
  • Yes

• I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.

  

  William Cowper
  • Mercy
  • Doors
  • Loneliness