Cosa Quotes & Sayings

Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles. — Samuel Johnson

Of course the girl who meows when she has an orgasm is afraid of cats. — Alice Clayton

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. — Abraham Lincoln

I lost somebody I loved," she whispered. "I know that doesn't make me special. Happens to everyone. She made me feel special, though, more than anyone else I'd met in five hundred years." She wiped at the tear on her cheek. "I don't know if we would have made it last forever, but damn if we weren't going to try. — Kevin Hearne

I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it. — Helen Cresswell

Never miss day without a walk. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I picked up an old microscope at a flea market in Verona. In the long evenings, in my imitation of life science, I set up in the courtyard and examined local specimens. Pointless pleasure, stripped of ends. The ancient contadino from across the road, long since convinced that we were mad, could not resist coming over for a look.
I showed him where to put his eye. I watched him, thinking, this is how we attach to existence. We look through awareness's tube and see the swarm at the end of the scope, taking what we come upon there for the full field of sight itself.
The old man lifted his eye from the microscope lens, crying.
Signore, ho ottantotto anni e non ho mai Saputo prima che cosa ci fosse in una goccia d'acqua. I'm eighty-eight years old and I never knew what was in a droplet of water. — Richard Powers

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter. — William S. Burroughs

We are not responsible to the .90 calibers the pezzonovantis who take it upon themselves to decide what we shall do with out lives, who declare wars they wish us to fight in to protect what they own ... And who are they then to meddle when we look after our own interests? Sonna cosa nostra ... these are our own affairs. We will manage our world for ourselves because it is our world, cosa nostra — Mario Puzo

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one ever climbed spiritual heights without it. No one ever lived without it. — George Matthew Adams

Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile,
They will, they will not; fools that on them trust;
For in their speech is death, hell in their smile.
[It., Femmina e cosa garrula e fallace:
Vuole e disvuole, e folle uom chi sen fida,
Si tra se volge.] — Torquato Tasso

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

What - of all the incredible duets that I've been able to sing, you know, John Raitt was still the one that I just shook in my boots just standing next to him. I loved him so much. — Bonnie Raitt

Universal opinions are often mistaken for universal principles — Seth Czerepak

Tell him, Cosa Nostra says, HELLAO! — Waheed Ibne Musa

The television, iPod, and Internet have trespassed upon the innocence of America's children, while preoccupied mothers and dispassionate fathers stare aghast wondering what went wrong. They don't stop to think of their own contributions to the persuasions influencing their children. After all, where do kids as young as elementary age get money to rent rock videos and the latest rap DVDs? — Billy Graham

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God. — Kevin DeYoung

No one else has ever made me feel the way you do. Not even close. — Mia Sheridan