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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• 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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• In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.

  

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• As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.

  

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• We have to change course. And we have to do so now. That is why I worked with my colleagues in Washington to pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

  

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• I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me, and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.

  

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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