William Cowper Quotes
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
Quotes to Explore
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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I went to the premier of 'Stardust,' which starred Michelle Pfeiffer. I nearly died when I saw her on the red carpet – she's so beautiful.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.
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We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.
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I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.
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I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
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He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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Ricky: You are the strangest man alive.
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A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.
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Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.
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My sister called her pillow a pilgo. My brother called his pacifier his nimma. But I don't think I was much of a word generator myself.
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I love to act. I want to be doing this forever, and I love to learn from people who I think are better.
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In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
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The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.
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Humans aren’t that extraordinary. We’re small. The more humans tell themselves they are giant, the more I feel like I’m losing sight of myself. Humans are only as big as a human can be.”
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I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.
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…these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity.
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Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
