Copt Quotes & Sayings

I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral, ironic and relevatory-here is the full chaos of life. An amazing talent. — Janet Fitch

As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity. — William Winwood Reade

Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you - The Copt — Paulo Coelho

Some persons feel drawn towards those who dislike them, or are at least determined to overcome opposition of that sort. — Anthony Powell

From childhood he had been devoted to whatever was useless, metamorphosing the streetcar rattle of life into events of consequence, and when he began to fall in love he tried to tell women about this, but they did not understand him, for which he revenged himself by speaking to them in a wild, bombastic birdy language and exclusively about the loftiest matters. — Osip Mandelstam

He turned and looked at the boy. Maybe he understood for the first time that to the boy he was himself an alien. A being from a planet that no longer existed. The tales of which were suspect. He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he. He tried to remember the dream but he could not. All that was left was the feeling of it. He thought perhaps they'd come to warn him. Of what? That he could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own. Even now some part of him wished they'd never found this refuge. Some part of him always wished it to be over. — Cormac McCarthy

If this is a sad story, don't tell it to me tonight.'It is not sad,' she said. 'Only some things happen and are there for always even though you forget why or when. — Jean Rhys

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches. — Will Rogers

I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction? — Wayne Gerard Trotman

I am a mother and mothers don't have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults. — Kristin Hannah

I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances. — Cristiano Ronaldo

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language. — Steven Pinker

What is success?" poses the Copt. "It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace. — Paulo Coelho

I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen. — Calvin Coolidge

True wit has a grave intention. — Mason Cooley