William Cowper Quotes

Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.

William Cowper

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• I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.

  

  Nate Diaz
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• The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.

  

  Sam Kean
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• Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • War
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• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

  

  Sally Pearson
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• Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• The future will be better tomorrow.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Future
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• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Change
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• When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Real
  • Future
  • Start

• There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!

  

  Fat Joe
  • America
  • Help
  • Same

• A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Game
  • Car
  • Sports

• It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Movie
  • Age

• I still like to sit in a room and play games all day, so I'm a kid, really.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Play
  • Day
  • Games

• I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Girl
  • Never
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• We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Fun
  • Able
  • Poke

• The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Reason
  • Process
  • Results

• Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

  

  Jacinda Barrett
  • Work
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• I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Mother
  • Play

• When it came to 'Concussion,' I found myself with so many threads to weave. So integral to the whistle-blower's tale were spirituality, the cost of hero-worshipping, what it means to be an American, and just how dangerous the truth can be.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • Truth
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• Motion pictures are a director's medium. Broadway is a writer's medium. Television is a producer's medium. I picked a medium I could control.

  

  David L. Wolper
  • Control

• Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Present

• Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Art
  • House
  • Prayer

• Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.

  

  William Cowper
  • Giving
  • Prayer
  • Sweet