Cogg Quotes & Sayings

Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. "Listen," he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond the pond. "That's an easy one to tell. The frog-pippit." Then he would add, As a safety measure, "As I believe they call it in these parts." — Stephen Potter

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. — Marian Wright Edelman

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love. — Victor Hugo

She comes close again and I barrel ahead, because apparently that's who I am with this girl. Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself. I like who I am with her. I like that I say what's on my mind. I like that I barrel ahead despite the obstacles she raises. Normally I would give up, but not today. — Nicola Yoon

The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out. — Arianna Huffington

And beneath the chaos of the moment, Denise becomes aware of a painful truth about herself: she is never as deeply in love with a man as she is in the moment he leaves her. — Jonathan Tropper

I think the only way one can really determine whether extremism in the defense of liberty is justified, is not to approach it as an american or a european or an African or an Asian, but as a human being. If we look upon it as different types immediately we begin to think in terms of extremism being good for one and bad for another, or bad for one and good for another. But if we look upon it, if we look upon ourselves as human beings, I doubt that anyone will deny that extremism, in defense of liberty, the liberty of any human being. — Malcolm X

Benghazi happened a long time ago. — Jay Carney

Absent a sense of the preciousness of one's own life, why respect the life of anyone else? — Kentetsu Takamori

I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore. — Manolo Blahnik

Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

every night when the hours grew too long — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

All success is, really, is having a predetermined plan and carrying it out successfully over a long period of time. — Harvey MacKay

You can have your wish in the sacred time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A douche of spray blinded my brother for a moment. — H.G.Wells

The Chinese food arrives. Delicious saliva fills his mouth. He really hasn't had any since Texas. He loves this food that contains no disgusting proofs of slain animals, a bloody slab of cow haunch, a hen's sinewy skeleton; these ghosts have been minced and destroyed and painlessly merged with the shapes of insensate vegetables, plump green bodies that invite his appetite's innocent gusto. Candy. — John Updike