William Cowper Quotes

But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write.

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• The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

  

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• More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

  

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• Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.

  

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• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

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• I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

  

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• People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

  

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• For a long time, I said I didn't want to model. I was a dancer.

  

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• My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

  

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• We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

  

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• I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

  

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• I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.

  

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• Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

  

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• I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.

  

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• All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.

  

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• If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

  

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• If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

  

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• I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

  

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• Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

  

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• Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.

  

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• Contrary to what the Americans frequently reiterated, al-Qaeda did not have any relationship with Saddam Hussein or his regime.

  

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• When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

  

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• Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

  

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• But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write.

  

  William Cowper
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Poverty