William Cowper Quotes

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.

William Cowper

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• Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Long
  • Success
  • Technology

• I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'

  

  Zara Cox
  • Black
  • Lies
  • Loved

• Happy to see that the Automobile Club of Monaco, opened its doors to the public to attend a considerable event. The promotion of this event will be made by the image and by the text, but still by word of mouth.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Happy
  • See
  • Text

• There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Mind
  • Profound
  • Strength

• I'm a gun owner.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Gun
  • Owner

• I don't believe in changing the unchangeable.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Believe
  • Changing

• I can't write about people I don't feel some sort of connection to.

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • People
  • Connection

• I'd like to do an action film like Angelina Jolie's 'Salt.'

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Action

• I think there has never ever been a career like John Williams'. That whole 'Jaws' phenomenon - there's nobody that knows how to use music like Spielberg, and John is just the perfect analog to Spielberg.

  

  David Newman
  • Music
  • Career
  • Perfect

• Every decision I make in Congress will be centered on the needs of the district.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Decision

• I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.

  

  Lee DeWyze
  • Pretty
  • Player

• I'm kind of shocked that it's taken Hollywood so long to realize that so many great movie talents can come out of television. One of the reasons they do is that on TV you don't have the luxury of a film's big budget, and people have to compensate with creativity.

  

  James Van Der Beek
  • People
  • Great
  • Long

• When I came to MIT, there were four rubrics: science, art, design, and technology. And as you entered your degree, whether it was a master's or a Ph.D., if you were a citizen in one domain, you were a traveler in the other.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Art
  • Science
  • Technology

• Let's get one thing straight - there is a big difference between a quitter and someone who gives up. Unfortunately, I have the right to make this claim because I fit into the category of 'quitter.'

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • Up

• Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the unfamiliar, in favor of gravitating to what you know?

  

  Joe Morton
  • Music
  • Country

• The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed.

  

  Christine O'Donnell
  • Up

• I saw a niche in the market where made-to-measure wasn't being done in a modern, fresh way or in a short period of time. Traditionally, bespoke orders take a very long time, but I thought, 'Here we are with all these fashion-forward ideas - why not?'

  

  Emilia Wickstead
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• What will eventually cause the defeat of ISIL is that it will collapse under its own contradictions, frankly. When the populations in which it tries to maneuver realize that that ideology is not to their future benefit.

  

  Martin Dempsey
  • Future

• God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ's sake, and from no other motive.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• I learned that a stiff test for friendship is: “Would she be pleasant to have t.b. with?

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Friendship
  • Learned
  • Test

• Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Forget
  • Faithful
  • Remembrance

• Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent; let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching; by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Silence
  • Silent
  • Wounds

• There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.

  

  William Cowper
  • Preaching
  • Sparks
  • Clerks