Coppens Glas Quotes & Sayings

The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories. — Alan W. Watts

There is no substitute for science communication to the public and policy makers. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Remember how God became one of us? Remember how God ate with us and drank with us, laughed with us and cried with us? Remember how God suffered for us, and died for us, and gave his life for the life of the world? Remember? Remember? — Rachel Held Evans

You could have missed the pain, but you'd have had to miss the dance,' — Carolyn Brown

I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never shrank from their duty or their vision of freedom. But this land has a future only if each of us stands up for what is right when it is given us to do so. — Ann Rinaldi

There was a lot of pretense floating around; not just with aunties and all that but with emotions and how people saw you. They had a point. There's a lot to learn from that generation
the stoic approach. I think it's disgusting how they've been forgotten about in this way. It's the American hippies' fault, they saw an in there, a way of making money out of bad moods. That's all it is most of the time. You can't expect to feel cock-a-hoop every minute of every day. My mam and dad's generation understood this. They were just thankful the bombs had stopped threatening their lives. They just wanted to get on with living. — Mark E. Smith

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing. — Vince Vaughn

Just about everybody in America likes Jesus, but few like him for who he truly is. — Kevin DeYoung

Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it. — Kim Cattrall

I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it. — Elizabeth Moon

For a long while I have lived with the notion that I was the most normal being that ever existed. This notion gave me the taste, even the passion for being unproductive: what was the use of being prized in a world inhabited by madmen, a world mired in mania and stupidity? For whom was one to bother, and to what end? It remains to be seen if I have quite freed myself from this certitude, salvation in the absolute, ruin in the immediate. — Emil Cioran

I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy. I used to sit by the record player and copy Chuck Berry and the Beatles. You can never copy someone completely, so you end up developing your own style. — Ronnie Wood

There are times when the trouble we face has nothing to do with anything wrong we've done; but everything to do with where we're going. — Jamie Larbi