"The love that interferes and knows not how……" — John Cowper Powys
"The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways."
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15 Quotes by John Cowper Powys
John Cowper Powys has 15 quotes on this site.
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Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.
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To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky,…
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Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget…
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Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads…
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If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how…
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Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
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Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity…
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What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a…
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To a real child anything will serve as a toy.
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A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island…
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Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.
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The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is…
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More Alien Quotes
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one of 539 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
— Rudolf Arnheim
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages…
— Russell Baker
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
— Aeschylus
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
— Orson Scott Card
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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.
— Julian Casablancas
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all…
— Noam Chomsky
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There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books…
— Sandra Cisneros
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I feel... sexier, I think, with short hair. I feel like an alien!
— Pamela Anderson
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The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
— James Madison
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