Albert Cohen Quotes & Sayings

Man is not satisfied with just being man. He wants to be everything, all creatures, and still remain himself. Man has unfathomable depths to his goodness and his evil, his intelligence and his ignorance
he is a dark region of wells and wishes to drink at them all.'
O-kolkol — Garry Douglas Kilworth

If you appreciate, you will appreciate. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think? — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I must have been a really tough kid to corral. I got disciplined quite frequently. I guess that would be the best way to say it. The rod, I wore out the rod. You know, Spare the rod and spoil the child? Well, I wore out the rod. — Terry Bradshaw

Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet. — Jason Hirschhorn

We'd rather be a band that some people are going to passionately hate than be a ringtone band. — Sam Endicott

And eventually, he (Charles Manson) testified to an empty court, as Bugliosi had convinced the presiding judge Older, that Manson's hypnotic powers might convince the jury he was innocent. — Nikolas Schreck

Stop running around, stop trying to return every email in your inbox immediately, stop cramming too much stuff into too few hours in the day. Sit down, shut up, and most importantly, be glad. — David Alan Basche

My mind has taken over my heart,and now there is nothing left to be discussed. — Narjit Singh

Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young. — Lois Lowry