Coegos Quotes & Sayings

I'm in a caregiver's relationship with my body, a perpetual internal gauging of wellness. My spine is Hogarth's thermometer. I ascend and descend its rungs a hundred times a day, reading the mercury level. The same dis-ease speaks many languages. If you block one mouth, another will speak. The symptoms represent differently, and as I get older, my translation changes. The prescription changes. Must be vigilant. Must be my best nurse. — Jalina Mhyana

A [person] ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian . . . and most of all, his family ought to know. - D. L. Moody — Peter Greer

We never know who we are going to be until we are tested, but perhaps we can test ourselves without going to the extremes of war. Perhaps we can be kinder now, live with less now, reach out to others now - and build an inner reserve of a strong identity that will hold us up even when everything else falls away. — Deborah Ellis

Adverbs and cops always come in pairs. — Gary Reilly

I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books. — Ray Bradbury

You change the rhythm of the talk and respoonse and you change the rhythm between the talk and the response. — Gayl Jones

To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today ... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

My husband is a very present husband, and that has made going to work feel easier. I don't feel guilty. I definitely feel less guilt because I know he's there during breakfast, lunch and supper if I'm not. — Jennifer Lawrence

Spirituality does not give relevance to life; rather, truth gives relevance to spirituality. — Ravi Zacharias

THIS WOULD BE the first tricky part, they knew. They'd come in on the south side of the fairgrounds, between the swine and sheep barns. There would be cops all over the place - though fewer at night - and they wanted to get to the machinery grounds, where there were always a number of pickups parked. While they had the truck pass, it wouldn't stand a real check. If somebody called in the pass number, it'd show up as lost or stolen. — John Sandford

The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten. — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston

Women choose to be catty, cruel, prejudiced, competitive or jealous of each other partly because we grow up learning that negative behavior towards women is perfectly acceptable, and partly because it is a difficult task to see ourselves in our perceptions. Seeing ourselves requires effort and commitment,
This unwillingness to see ourselves is greatly exacerbated by the fact that we, quite often, do not see even a remote semblance of ourselves in the images of women commonly found in our society. — Inga Muscio

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are. — Martin Puryear

Too much thinking causes confusion and anxiety
better to stick with the simplicity of Tao — Lao-Tzu

Why was everyone dying? They had all been so alive just yesterday. — Yoko Ogawa