Charlie Cobalt Quotes & Sayings

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies. — Alice Hamilton

Loving difficult people will refine us. Perhaps only in heaven will our love be so perfected that we can actually like these people, too. St. Augustine spoke of a man who, on earth, had chronic gas problems; in heaven, his flatulence became perfect music. — Scott Hahn

It (Life) is constantly changing, and yet it remains the same. — Jan Hawkins

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts. — Virgil

Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column ... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form. — Anna Quindlen

I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a moral person, but I'm definitely not religious, and I'm very tired of the preachiness and obsession with other people's behavior characteristic of many religious people in the United States. As far as I could tell, there's nothing preachy about Buddhism. I was in a lot of temples, and I still don't know what Buddhists believe, except that at one point Kunio said 'If you do bad things, you will be reborn as an ox.'
This makes as much sense to me as anything I ever heard from, for example, the Reverend Pat Robertson. — Dave Barry

Earthly things must be known to be loved; heavenly things must be loved to be known. — Blaise Pascal

Then when you think in years to come Of Birthdays long ago You may remember fondly How much we love you so. — Janet Horne

I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer. — Elmore Leonard

Fear the assassin who waits in the lonely passages of the heart. — Jack McDevitt

She thought so hard all the time. Always writing, writing. I think it was a mercy killing. She asked him to kill her and he did. And then, of course, yes, he ate her. — David Cronenberg