William Cowper Prime Quotes

In the name of sense, man, if God made fish to be eaten, what difference does it make if I enjoy the killing of them before I eat them? You would have none but a fisherman by trade do it, and then you would have him utter a sigh, a prayer, and a pious ejaculation at each cod or haddock that he killed.

William Cowper Prime

• God
• Prayer
• Killing
• Ejaculation
• Name Of Sense

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• Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Water
  • Nothing
  • Flexible

• Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Future
  • Small
  • Community

• Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Law

• I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Happy
  • Girl
  • Sad

• There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Great
  • Sports
  • Win

• There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.

  

  Randy Houser
  • People
  • Music
  • Job

• I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Music
  • Money
  • Desire

• I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Life
  • Justice
  • Kindness

• At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Best

• Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Personal religion collapses with some individuals, because in their case it had long been growing hollow and thin. ... In reality there was little personal religion to lose, and that little would probably have been lost in some other way.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Growing

• 'I don't see much sense in that,' said Rabbit.'No,' said Pooh humbly, 'there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it on the way.'

  

  A. A. Milne

• It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. … The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • World
  • Evil

• When we give trust, we receive trust. And people who trust us pay attention to us.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Attention
  • Trust

• The Bible … does not contain a single sentence that could not have been written by a man or woman living in the first century.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Single
  • Bible

• Iusque datum sceleri.

  

  Lucan

• A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.

  

  Jay Parini
  • God
  • Long
  • Running

• I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • People
  • Live
  • Wish

• Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

  

  David Novak
  • Identity

• It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

  

  Bela Bartok
  • God
  • Believe
  • May

• Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering the ship, be thankful. He has removed the illusion, and forced you to rely only on Him.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • God
  • Control
  • Thankful

• I … understand why the saints were rarely married women. I am convinced it has nothing inherently to do, as I once supposed, with chastity or children. It has primarily to do with distractions … Women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life or saintly life.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• In the name of sense, man, if God made fish to be eaten, what difference does it make if I enjoy the killing of them before I eat them? You would have none but a fisherman by trade do it, and then you would have him utter a sigh, a prayer, and a pious ejaculation at each cod or haddock that he killed.

  

  William Cowper Prime
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Killing