Abraham Cowley Quotes
His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
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I am and will always be a Laker for life.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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Rudy Giuliani - there's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9/11.
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I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.
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People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots of different crashes and whooshes, all at different stages, and all going off at the same time.
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I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.
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[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
