William Cowper Quotes
He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.William Cowper
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
Jackie Chan -
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
A. J. P. Taylor -
Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
Jack Schwartz -
I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
Aby Rosen -
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
Carlos Fuentes
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
Quavo Migos -
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
Zygmunt Bauman -
In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
Octavio Paz -
Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
Pat Brown -
Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
Park Chan-wook -
Death Row had a lot of artists. They had Snoop, the Dogg Pound, the Lady of Rage, and there was other artists that was also on the label, so it was a big list and a long wait. I didn't want to wait that long, so I started branching off and doing my own thing.
Warren G
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
Talulah Riley -
People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
Yukihiro Matsumoto -
I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
Taraji P. Henson -
I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty -
The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.
Kajol -
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
Jacob Bronowski
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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.
Bela Karolyi -
American colleges are now increasingly reflexive in maintaining politically correct dialogue over controversy, and some say universities have lost sight of education's ultimate purpose.
John McLaughlin -
In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.
Michael Gove -
Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
John Stuart Mill -
He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
William Cowper