Abraham Cowley Quotes

Ev'en Thou my breast with such blest rage inspire,As mov'd the tuneful strings of Davids Lyre

Abraham Cowley

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• Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Chance
  • Mankind
  • Given

• I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Successful
  • Mystery

• They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Women
  • Know
  • Heaven

• We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Economy

• English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Different
  • Culture
  • English

• The possibility that a provincial town could win the League completely bucks the trend.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Win
  • Town
  • Trend

• I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Game
  • Myself
  • Player

• As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Mind
  • Enjoy
  • Criticism

• Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • God
  • Free

• Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Form
  • Benefit
  • Partnership

• Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Moment
  • New York
  • Succeed

• At the core of my dad is, he has a very strong faith. He believes very firmly in loving God.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • God
  • Strong
  • Faith

• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Long

• I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • Death

• Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Consistent intellectualism and spirituality may be socially valuable, up to a point; but they make, gradually, for individual death.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Music is something everyone on Earth can share. Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Music
  • Together
  • Happy

• I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.

  

  Lori Foster
  • Career
  • Gay
  • Athlete

• President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

  

  Fred Barnes
  • Guy
  • Free
  • Wonder

• You just hope that we haven't soured an entire generation on the necessity, from time to time, of using force because Iraq has been such a debacle. That would be tragic because Iran is a grave threat.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Hope
  • Force
  • Generation

• A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalty and honesty.

  

  Nicolle Wallace
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Honesty

• I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop learning about. Actually, in high school there was a time that I was thinking about just concentrating on painting and I asked my music teacher, Mr. Sondberg, for advice and he encouraged me to stick with the music as well. So all my life I have been singing and painting.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.

  

  Stella Benson
  • Conscience
  • Excellent
  • Misunderstood

• Ev'en Thou my breast with such blest rage inspire,As mov'd the tuneful strings of Davids Lyre

  

  Abraham Cowley