William Cowper Quotes

The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge

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• You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • You
  • Always
  • Sometimes

• In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Details
  • Negotiation

• Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Time
  • Blood
  • Battle

• Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Down
  • Calm
  • Storm

• I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Up
  • Day
  • Week

• Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Theatre
  • Now
  • Dinner

• I'm not really into weight training.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Training
  • Really
  • Weight

• Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • Easy
  • Nothing

• It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Good
  • Why
  • Basketball

• There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Pleasure
  • More
  • Still

• Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Observation
  • Brief

• All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Law

• When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Up
  • Women
  • Family

• James Garner was a gift to our business and an example of honesty and pure class. It was an honor to have worked beside him and receive his bear hugs every day.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Business
  • Day
  • Honor

• I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Moment

• I have always been a movie buff and had no interest in any games and sports. I do not even watch cricket, which is one of the favourite games of most of my friends. However, I have become a wrestling fan after 'Dangal.'

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Friends
  • Movie
  • Sports

• You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
  • Tired
  • View

• I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Reflection

• A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Great
  • Important
  • Silly

• God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.

  

  Avicenna
  • Time
  • God
  • Soul

• I think Twitter is such a cool thing because it really is a direct line to the fans and for fans back to you, and it's such a new thing. I think in the past there's been usually fan mail and that's really good, but Twitter, it gets an immediate response.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Good
  • Past
  • Cool

• A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Art
  • Science
  • Education

• The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge

  

  William Cowper
  • Fool
  • Judging
  • Significant