Cocusa Quotes & Sayings

I have discovered that I cannot ignore the infliction of suffering - especially for my convenience or pleasure! It's as if a puppy is being kicked in front of me. I must try to do something. — Kristin Bauer Van Straten

In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being. — Khalil

Every profession has its pitfalls. Doctors, for example, are always being asked for free medical advice, lawyers are asked for legal information, morticians are told how interesting a profession that must be and then people change the subject fast. — Neil Gaiman

I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it becomes political. You cannot conduct properly in this environment. I hate this enemy situation between management and orchestra members. — Neeme Jarvi

'Night Watch' itself is a very Russian movie. It's impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a depressing ending, a lot of inexplicable storylines, strange characters. It's a Russian reflection of American film culture. — Timur Bekmambetov

When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord's, we waste no time arguing for our own. — Charles R. Swindoll

No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is to the one to whom it is told another fact, not an idea. The communication may stimulate the other person to realize the question for himself and to think out a like idea, or it may smother his intellectual interest and suppress his dawning effort at thought. But what he directly gets cannot be an idea. Only by wrestling with the conditions of the problem at first hand, seeking and finding his own way out, does he think. — John Dewey

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way. — Shaquille O'Neal

The enemy of science is not religion ... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma. — Frans De Waal

When happiness depends on a situation or creation, it is not happiness; it is the joy of action. — Debasish Mridha

Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you. — N.D. Wilson

Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles. — Eva Green

It's not ... not as easy to break away from home as I thought it'd be. — Marilyn Brant

No matter how slinky your lingerie, a sticker between the brows will always kill the mood. — Rosen Trevithick

Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death. — Mason Cooley