Abraham Cowley Quotes

Unable to corrupt, seek to destroy;And where their Poysons miss, the Sword employ.

Abraham Cowley

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• I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Past
  • Tomorrow

• I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Time
  • Guy

• The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Attention

• I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Lead
  • Rise
  • Employment

• Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Control
  • Grow
  • Plants

• Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Gift
  • Whom

• Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • May
  • Road
  • English

• I'm very sad 'Life' wasn't a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was intense. I moved my wife, and we had two children back to back. So working those hours and living abroad in L.A. was a handful. But it was a great experience.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Great
  • Children

• My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Getting Older

• Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Small
  • Fish

• Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Soul

• 'You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life

• Concerned about his legacy, George W. Bush may yet live to see his name entered into the history of his country as the president who lost the American Southwest that James K. Polk won for the United States.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Live
  • Country
  • May

• So it's gonna be foreverOr it's gonna go down in flames.You can tell me when it's overIf the high was worth the pain.Got a long list of ex-lovers,They'll tell you I'm insane.'Cause you know I love the players,And you love the game.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Long
  • High
  • Game

• My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.

  

  Alan Hovhaness
  • People
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• 'Yes. I like to see people get angry. I like it very much. But here in England they do not get angry like they do in Spain. In Spain they take out their knives and they curse and shout. In England they do nothing, just get very red in the face and shut up their mouths tight.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • People
  • Up
  • Red

• Hollywood... that's not going to be my niche at all. If anyone is going wants to work with me, I would think it's going to be independent films. I'm not 22!

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Work
  • Independent

• Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

  

  John Polkinghorne

• Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Possible

• Tolerance has been a very important feature of Christianity from its very roots, despite all the other things that have gone on since. And that, I think, must be the global perspective. Tolerance implies more than saying, "Well, let the Muslims go on with what they are doing." It also means trying to learn something from them and adding that to your own tradition. That is the attitude I think needs to inform the global citizen of the future.

  

  Ninian Smart
  • Tolerance
  • Tradition
  • Citizen

• Unable to corrupt, seek to destroy;And where their Poysons miss, the Sword employ.

  

  Abraham Cowley