William Cowper Quotes
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
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I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.
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I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
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I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.
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High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.
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I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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Now stand you on the top of happy hours, And many maiden gardens yet unset, With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers, Much liker than your painted counterfeit: So should the lines of life that life repair Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen Neither in inward worth nor outward fair Can make you live your self in eyes of men.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
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When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
