William Cowper Quotes
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.William Cowper
Quotes to Explore
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
O. J. Simpson -
I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
Gail Sheehy -
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.
Dani Shapiro -
When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
Barbara Boxer -
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.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
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.
Tamsin Greig
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
Viggo Mortensen -
Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
Fidel Castro -
The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
Naftali Bennett -
Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.
Kate Moss -
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
Walter Becker China Crisis
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I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.
Nancy Sinatra -
I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
Natalie Merchant -
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.
Zubin Mehta -
It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
Nadia Comaneci -
Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.
Kate O'Brien -
I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.
Wayne Knight
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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
Odette Annable -
Computing is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
Alan Kay -
I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
A. Whitney Brown -
Physically, I feel probably as good as I've ever felt. And I've got as much energy as I ever did. But what you feel after eight years - and I think you'd feel this no matter what, but anytime you have a big transition, it gets magnified - is time passes.
Barack Obama -
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
William Cowper