Abraham Cowley Quotes

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

Abraham Cowley

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• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Law
  • Sick
  • Medicine

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • You
  • Learning

• If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.

  

  Larry King
  • Mind
  • Friend
  • Doubt

• When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Break
  • Now
  • Modern

• A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Body

• I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'

  

  Lara Stone
  • Up
  • Love
  • Parents

• I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Environment
  • Concerts
  • Intrigues

• Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Rock

• The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Light

• Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Qualities

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Talent
  • Stupidity

• Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Feel

• I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Always
  • Eat
  • Watching

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Lies

• Ricky's [Reed] a lot like me. He always says we have the same brain. He does all different genres, and it just happens his first big hit as a producer was [Derulo's] "Talk Dirty to Me," and that Pitbull is his best friend. But he can actually - I swear - he can do every genre.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Different
  • Friend
  • Like

• I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.

  

  Barbara Hambly
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • World
  • God
  • City