William Cowper Quotes

No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.

William Cowper

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• I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Country
  • Amazing

• Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Write

• People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.

  

  Kate Williams
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Problems

• Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • You
  • Mad

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

  

  Patrick White
  • Writing
  • Door
  • Habit

• I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Doing

• I've done a lot of things in my life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Done
  • My Life

• We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Nature
  • Know

• I never grew up seeing women that looked like me in magazines or on TV and didn't feel like I had a place in the world of fashion. I am honoured to be part of that change.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • World
  • Women

• As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Trust
  • Leadership

• Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• 'There’s nothing to fear, Lebannen,' he said gently, mockingly. 'They were only the dead.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Fear

• Statesmen remember things selectively.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Remember

• Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Cold

• Developing prayer fitness is similar to developing physical fitness: we must follow a pattern in order to stay balanced.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Prayer
  • Fitness

• If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts-what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

  

  Ruth Gordon
  • Believe
  • Today
  • Mean

• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

  

  Hannah More
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking the tree to remove the bad fruit, we do not bring down the tree itself.

  

  Pratibha Patil
  • Bad
  • Tree

• Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that minor chord, disease. Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • God
  • True
  • Words

• No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.

  

  William Cowper
  • Tree
  • Charm
  • Grove