William Cowper Quotes

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

William Cowper

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• Chinese people age overnight.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Age
  • Chinese

• My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • Good
  • Great
  • She

• I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Two
  • Jazz
  • Bass

• I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Healthy
  • Debate

• I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Team
  • Employees
  • Teammates

• 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

• Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Long
  • Business
  • Career

• I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Taken
  • Never
  • Interest

• I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Want
  • Goal
  • Legend

• Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Think
  • Adversity
  • Most

• I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Growing
  • Same
  • Group

• My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Time
  • School
  • Love

• 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 struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Women
  • Country
  • Struggle

• 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 booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Control
  • Kind
  • Acting

• Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Realize
  • Secrets
  • Hidden

• The battle sunk towards the horizon. Presently it would be gone, leaving a sky unsullied by human affairs.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Sky
  • Leaving

• Necessity, mother of invention.

  

  William Wycherley
  • Mother
  • Motherhood
  • Invention

• I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Unique
  • Achieve
  • Critical

• Only straight discovering in the nearest stone or tree, sound or thought, the shelter of His often desecrated goodness, the treasury of His waiting form man's heart to affiliate with His will - this is the rapture of faith. It is an echo to a pleading voice, a reply to the inconceivable in all beauty.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Heart
  • Faith
  • Waiting

• How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

  

  William Cowper
  • Evil
  • Tree
  • Journalism