Cockburn Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

We all make mistakes in our youth of which we are ashamed. The difference is that the rest of us can forgive the child we were and believe in the honour of the adult we have become. - Gwyddhien — Manda Scott

belongs. I can't afford so much as a footman to scour Saint Petersburg." "You must afford it. It is said, 'One — Gregory Maguire

Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life! ... — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills. — Gillian Armstrong

You can't build a life
on another human being. We're foundations
of sand. We're Atlas buckling under the sky. — Elisabeth Hewer

Do not judge a man by the books on his shelf that he has read but by the books on his shelf that he does not reread. — Anonymous

Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak has
been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not
grown. — Erich Fromm

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right. — Jack Kevorkian

Letting go of a craving is not rejecting it but allowing it to be itself: a contingent state of mind that once arisen will pass away. Instead of forcibly freeing ourselves from it, notice how its very nature is to free itself. To let it go is like releasing a snake that you have been clutching in your hand. By identifying with a craving ('I want this," don't want' that"), you tighten the clutch and intensify its resistance. Instead of being a state of mind that you have, it becomes a compulsion that has you. As with understanding anguish, the challenge in letting go of craving is to act before habitual reactions incapacitate us. — Stephen Batchelor

Hope springs eternal — J.K. Rowling

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation. — Judd Apatow