William Cowper Quotes
They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.William Cowper
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
J. B. Pritzker -
And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.
Ed Gillespie -
I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
Banksy -
There's a lot more to me than just power.
Canelo Alvarez -
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Earl Weaver -
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
Sam Brownback -
A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
Young Jeezy -
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
Wendell Berry -
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
Sam J. Jones -
Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.
Naveen Jain
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Carl Sandburg -
I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
Vidal Sassoon -
From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.
Zoe Kravitz -
I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
Kate Winslet -
Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
Hank Stram -
I'm not only passionate about dressing women and helping them feel and look their best, but also about helping to give a stronger voice to women and children in need around the world.
Rachel Roy
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With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience.
Jacqueline Woodson -
I did not discover literature of any kind until I was about eleven, or ten.
Ben Peek -
The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
Tatiana de Rosnay -
When you work with people you aspire to be like, you pay attention to them.
Arjun Kapoor -
To be loved is the birthright of every mewling babe, but, once grown, a man is not assured of such affection.
Katherine Marsh -
They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.
William Cowper