Cooksey Cawthorne Quotes & Sayings

According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame. — Hannah Arendt

I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about every writer in their flock. — Caroline Leavitt

Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom. — Gautama Buddha

Even though she looked the same, life had aged her, stolen her innocence, and replaced it with knowledge she'd never asked for. — Dinah Jefferies

I've never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi. — Carrie-Anne Moss

Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more. — Max Levchin

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world. — Eckhart Tolle

The business man who assumes that this life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth. "Yes, I see, dear; it's about halfway between," Aunt Juley had hazarded in earlier years. No; truth, being alive, was not halfway between anything. It was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility — E. M. Forster

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society. — Henning Mankell

A human body can think thoughts, play a piano, kill germs, remove toxins, make a baby all at once. Once it's doing that your biological rhythms are actually mirroring the symphony of the universe because you have circadian rhythms, seasonal rhythms, tidal rhythms you know they mirror everything that is happening in the whole universe. — Michio Kaku

I hate that word. It's return
a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen. — Billy Wilder

Realize that your gift does not only belong to you — Sunday Adelaja

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. — Walter Benjamin

I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren. — Hugo Chavez

At the time of death, whatever you have focused on the most will determine your next life. — Frederick Lenz