William Cobbett Quotes

The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom... have been thrust out of all public employment... a race of merchants, and manufacturers and bankers and loan-jobbers and contractors have usurped their place.

William Cobbett

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• I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Story

• I don't particularly get nervous about anything.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Anything
  • Get
  • Nervous

• One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Girl

• New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Moving

• Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Up
  • God
  • Real

• I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Remember
  • Fall
  • Powerful

• We had a very thorough exchange of the different positions of the EU-3 and the new government of Iran.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Different
  • Government
  • Position

• A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • World
  • Lost
  • Sound

• Holding her gaze, he closed the final distance between them and went down to his knees, that beautiful bruised face looking up at her.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Distance

• We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Work
  • Fall
  • Brain

• Sstudying ants just quickly became part of me because I was allowed to wander, explore and find things and figure things out myself. And I saw how much was there and what could be done and how I could make a life of it.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Done
  • Explore

• Share the Gospel. According to the Bible, it is every believer's privilege and responsibility to share the Gospel. If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Responsibility
  • Lies
  • Bible

• We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • Important
  • Death

• Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Experience
  • Community
  • Reason

• The greatest contribution to the Mexican table imaginable.

  

  Rick Bayless
  • Contribution
  • Imaginable

• Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Memories
  • Dear
  • Remembrance

• Forgiveness is the greatest weapon that God has given us.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Given

• One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time.

  

  John Gardner
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Novel

• Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized nations, to the conduct of the world around us, or to the monitor within the breast; whether we read, or hear, or act, or think, or feel, the same humiliating lesson is forced upon us.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Ancient

• The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom... have been thrust out of all public employment... a race of merchants, and manufacturers and bankers and loan-jobbers and contractors have usurped their place.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Ancient
  • Nobility
  • Loan