William Cobbett Quotes

But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?

William Cobbett

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• To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Integrity
  • Election
  • Nobody

• One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Poet

• I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Better

• No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Movie

• The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Start
  • Difficulty
  • Ordeal

• When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Book
  • First
  • Everyone

• Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Kind

• My goal is to always be improving my skills.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Always
  • Goal
  • Skills

• I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Know
  • Dying

• When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Song
  • Light
  • Church

• One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • World
  • Me
  • Cup

• Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Him
  • Started
  • Once

• I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Military

• You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • You
  • Always
  • Comfortable

• Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • God
  • Live
  • Marriage

• A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • American
  • Man
  • Action

• I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • God
  • Believe
  • Jesus

• I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Myself
  • Breathe
  • Talk

• The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it was nothing more than a scrubby little overhang under a rhododendron bush, but it was incredibly important to me.

  

  Jay Griffiths
  • Important
  • Children

• Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• The first two lines, which rhymed 'kiddin' you' and 'didn't you,' just about knocked me out, and later on, when I got to the jugglers and the chrome horse and the princess on the steeple, it all just about got to be too much.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Horse
  • Princess

• I admit, that the commonplace man can never, by copying, produce a masterpiece; he notes every detail but he does not really see - the artist penetrates below the surface into the very heart of nature; for him everything is beautiful because beauty in art consists of character.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Character

• We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?

  

  William Cobbett
  • Fate
  • Silly
  • Empires