William Cowper Quotes
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.William Cowper
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I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.
Adam Hamilton -
I love what I do.
Vanessa Paradis -
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando -
I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
Nancy Grace -
'Brotherhood of the Wolf' is a very important movie because it represents something new. The director Christophe Gans came up with the idea of taking a French legend and making it some kind of really strange, almost Chinese action movie. The result is something that I haven't seen anywhere before.
Vincent Cassel -
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren Bennis
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
Ed Gillespie -
On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
T. Boone Pickens -
I have a weird and undying love for George Michael. He's the reason why I want to do what I do.
Sam Smith -
'Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.'
Ian Paisley -
Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
Ramana Maharshi -
When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
Orson Scott Card
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Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.
Jack Vance -
We deemed the secret lost, the spirit gone, Which spake in Greek simplicity of thought, And in the forms of gods and heroes wrought Eternal beauty from the sculptured stone - A higher charm than modern culture won, With all the wealth of metaphysic lore, Gifted to analyze, dissect explore.
Margaret Fuller -
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Edward Young -
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment.
Ansel Adams -
I love being around people that are smarter than me, that think faster than me. So even if you're a dork, and you wear stupid clothes, and you make a fool of yourself, and everyone makes fun of you, and you're just an idiot-I don't care about the context. I don't care. If you're genius and I recognize it, I kind of dig that.
Courtney Love -
The streets of Paris, with their shops of old furniture, etchings, and works of art, are a veritable museum, far less tiring than official museums, and from which one imbibes just as much as one can.
Auguste Rodin
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I do think television has really fantasized it to the point where now everyone wants a gay best friend.
Lindsay Mendez -
As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.
Baratunde Thurston -
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
Publilius Syrus -
My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.
Mahatma Gandhi -
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
William Cowper