Cowden Quotes & Sayings

Don't think about it. Don't think about what could have been. It's too unbearable. — Sophie Kinsella

As countries get wealthier - all of them, together - you're going to have financial assets. That is a good thing. You could argue the assets were traded too much, or that they're too highly valued, or too leveraged. — Jamie Dimon

Can you imagine what God thinks as He watches us put Him on the back burner for the other things we want that we are relying on Him to give us? He probably says to himself, "why that ungrateful piece of ... " Ok, maybe He isn't thinking that at all, but you get the point. He needs us to keep our eyes on Him and when we do, He takes care of the rest. — Stephan Labossiere

No! no arresting the vast wheel of time,
That round and round still turns with onward might,
Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night
Of an unknown hereafter. — Charles Cowden Clarke

In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment. — Guy Debord

It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime. — Virginia Cary Hudson

I am happy that we are not favorites. To be very honest it's big pressure of being favorites. We were not favorites last time (in 2011) too but we played excellent cricket. Similarly this time, there are teams which play on those bouncy wickets like Australia and South Africa, and are probably bigger favorites than us. But we hope that with the type of resources we have we can do well. — Waqar Younis

Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing. — Alexander Hamilton

Push on when you think you can't, and next time that moment will come later — Sam Sheridan

Close the language-door,
and open the love-window — Rumi

Things do not happen to us ... They happen because of us — Gary Hopkins

In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the categories of race and class as they affected the formation of African American identity. Leslie Harris has made a major contribution to our understanding of the black experience. — Eric Foner