Cocciolone Captain Quotes & Sayings

There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries. — Frances Wright

The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion. — Robert Fulghum

I don't have hardly any caffeine, I don't drink alcohol and I watch my red meat intake. My diet at the minute seems to be verging towards the vegetarian, which is surprising me because I tend to just listen to what my body is fancying. — Jayne Middlemiss

The real transgression occurs when religion wants government to tell citizens how to live uniquely personal parts of their lives. The failure of Prohibition proves the futility of such an attempt when a majority or even a substantial minority happens to disagree. Some questions may be inherently individual ones, or people may be sharply divided about whether they are. In such cases, like Prohibition and abortion, the proper role of religion is to appeal to the conscience of the individual, not the coercive power of the state. — Edward Kennedy

He hung a patient expression on his face, the kind usually seen on people who talked about releasing your anger and surrounding yourself with good feelings while writing off anyone who disagreed with them as unenlightened. — Amy Fecteau

I've realized now that hope almost never goes together with reason. It's something quite irrational and instinctive. — Vasily Grossman

Stupid patriarchal culture with stupid ideas of beauty - stupid me for going along with it. — Marni Bates

Now I can go back to being ruthless again. — Robert Kennedy

It's very possible and very okay to forgive someone and still not want to spend time with them — Karen Salmansohn

The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all. — James A. Baldwin

Tonight I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me. — Richard H. Davis

He made his choices, over & over again. He's the one who could've said let's be together
none of this matters more than you, than us. And he didn't. — Doug Dorst