Coit Quotes & Sayings

Those who can't take directions graciously have no business giving them — Napoleon Hill

Instead, they asked: How do we prevent our people from screwing up? That approach never encourages a creative response. — Ed Catmull

The other half of rising - the very half that makes rising necessary - is having been nailed to the cross. — Cheryl Strayed

I can never quite trust anybody anymore. — Cat Stevens

He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if ever, to be met with in his correspondence. — Daniel Coit Gilman

If I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, 'Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead. And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.' — Bill O'Reilly

There is a purpose in life's struggles. Without them, we stay the same. — Auliq Ice

It was raw pity and unconstrained joy. — Hugh Howey

according to the unanimous opinion of anthropologists, the organization of enforced labor is one of the essentials of civilization. — Stanton Coit

I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me. — Rachel Hunter

It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures - but far and wide. — Daniel Coit Gilman

Doing an Injury puts you below your Enemy; Revenging one makes you but even with him; Forgiving it sets you above him. — Benjamin Franklin

The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play — Miles Davis

Begin laughing too, though they have no idea why. Which — Richard Russo

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine. — Angela Carter

Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill. — Gail Collins

Because it is the nature of Dreams, and ONLY of Dreams, to define Reality. Destiny is bound to existence. Death is limited by what she will or will not accept. — Neil Gaiman

My work is to love my body, all of it. Whole and entire. The whole aging mortal troublesome failing miraculous intricate breathing doomed cancerous warm mortifying unreliable hard-working imperfect beautiful appalling living struggling tender frightened frightening living dying living breathing temporary wondrous mystifying afflicted mortally-ill assemblage of the atoms of the universe that is my self, is me, for this space of time. — Irvin D. Yalom