William Cowper Quotes
The fall of waters and the song of birds, And hills that echo to the distant berds, Are luxuries excelling all the glare The world can boast, and her chief favorites share.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
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Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
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Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Education is a vacine for violence.
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When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.
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The fall of waters and the song of birds, And hills that echo to the distant berds, Are luxuries excelling all the glare The world can boast, and her chief favorites share.
