Cobra Baffler Quotes & Sayings

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into. — Joel Osteen

You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for wealth creation — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. — William Howard Taft

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll. — Joe Walsh

To be successful in sports, you need to learn techniques and skills and practice them regularly. — Carol S. Dweck

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist. — Leymah Gbowee

I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else. — Carl Orr

I close my eyes and listen to the ocean.
I'm thinking about sailing, to England or maybe France. The way the wind would feel on my face and the sound of his voice screaming my name through his laughter. The waves would crash like applause. God, I remember when I used to be afraid of the ocean. — Hannah Moskowitz

Remembering is the opposite of being here now; it's being there now. — Merrit Malloy

Touch the stone,' said Beliah, 'and you will touch "reality", or what the ignorant of all ages think "reality" is. That kind of truth will kill you, man. You won't see morning! I have kept you all your life from such things as remorse, terror, pity. Touch the stone, and those same angels will change you into an old poor pathetic deluded dying creature. Hubert, a nurse has to shave you, your hand shakes so much. You know that don't you? You dribble at every orifice, Hubert. You've begun to smell this past year or two...' He suddenly howled as if I had actually touched the stone,'YOU WILL BE RAVAGED IN FIRES OF GRACE!'
I heard Nurse McGregor in the next ward. 'Good evening,' came her cheerful voice to the looney who had strangled his sweetheart and then buried her in his garden. 'Is it cocoa tonight, or tea, or milk?"
Beliah was weeping. Outside the eaves dripped. The whole earth was drenched with the grief of Beliah. He wept inside me. I felt his marvellous tears on my face. — George Mackay Brown

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community. — Veronica Roth

Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous. — Jim Butcher

One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann