Cohenour Eugene Quotes & Sayings

If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone cancer. Or people who dealt with family members drowning in their own bodies, in the end, suffering without any hope of modern medical science easing their pain or offering any comfort. With the absolute knowledge that they were going to die anyway. I can't quite comprehend how we could want those people to continue to suffer that extreme agony on the understanding that it is the will of a creator or some other philosophical concept. — Kelvin Ogilvie

The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence. — Henry David Thoreau

She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better. — Tawni O'Dell

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place") — Gertrude Atherton

The opposite of compromise is character. — Frederick Douglass

She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd. — Jack Johnson

I wish
our cowboy could be persuaded
to buy a horse,

that I could be invisible
until I can talk back — Thanhha Lai

shall have experienced the bewildering emotions of love. The — Erich Maria Remarque

Facing facts is always empowering. — Eckhart Tolle

Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting. — Keith Donohue

In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average. — Albert Camus

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. — Jorge Luis Borges

Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better. — Anita Roddick