Cothren Contemporary Quotes & Sayings

Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself — Jeremy Griffith

It is impossible to reign innocently. — Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone. — Martina Navratilova

Anyone can 'outwit' a person who trusts them --- it doesn't take any brains to do that --- all one needs is no sense of honor. — Shirley Watkins

If these modern peoples could inflict the most barbaric treatment and persecution on another group of human beings, then there was something very, very deplorable with our species. No amount of education or technological progress was going to make any difference in altering human savagery. — Mitchell Diamond

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo

Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that eternal love is to be given to what is eternally unworthy. Or if that phrase seems to be a bitter one to bear, let us say that everybody is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is. — Oscar Wilde

In a way," I said to him, "that now you're talking about hardly exists. We feel it, but it's impossible to measure. The past is always eating up the present. — Siri Hustvedt

Stop worrying where you're going. Move on. If you can know where you're going, you've gone. Just keep moving on. — Stephen Sondheim

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder. — Carl Sandburg

If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions. — Elliott Abrams