Abraham Cowley Quotes

He saw the beauties of his shape and face,His female sweetness, and his manly grace

Abraham Cowley

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• We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Woman

• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Never
  • Effort
  • Moral

• It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Key

• The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • God
  • Mind

• It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • God
  • Job
  • America

• When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Reading
  • Period
  • Loved

• When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Parents
  • Change
  • Gay

• Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Creativity
  • Only
  • Capitalist

• I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

  

  T-Pain
  • Religion
  • Person
  • Human

• Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Man
  • Victory

• I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.

  

  Sam Dew
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Learning

• Remember, your vote is not a wasted vote. Vote with your heart and think about the future generations the next time you vote.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Remember

• I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Past
  • Mistakes
  • Negative

• There is no possible source of evil except good.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Possible

• Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting, you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick, or whatever. In sculpture, you can get a rock. Writing, you just need a pencil and paper. Film has been a very elitist medium. It costs so much money.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Money

• You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Spring
  • Flowers
  • Gardening

• I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Time
  • Education
  • Study

• Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Culture
  • Tradition
  • Weakness

• My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy.

  

  Mattie Stepanek

• For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Different
  • Powerful
  • Female

• You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

  

  Andre Agassi
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Dad

• He saw the beauties of his shape and face,His female sweetness, and his manly grace

  

  Abraham Cowley