William Cowper Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
-
Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
-
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
-
If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
-
I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
-
I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
-
I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
-
People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
-
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
-
All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
-
I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.
-
You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
-
We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.
-
You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
-
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
-
My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
-
I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.
-
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
-
The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.
-
The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.
-
Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.
-
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
-
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
