Cottleston Advisors Quotes & Sayings

Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Don't be a damned ammunition wagon. Be a rifle! — Carl Rogers

One day, in 1982, for 15 minutes, my hair was perfect. — Cathy Guisewite

Young bones groan And the rocks below say, "Throw your white body down!" But I'm going to meet the one I love At last — Steven Morrissey

The good thing about a self-help book is that if you misunderstand something then it won't mock you. — Stephen Richards

Nationalism and socialism as actually lived and applied in the 20th century are the same thing (and in the 18th and 19th century, nationalism was often a force for classical liberalism!). It's all a kind of reactionary tribalism (another "ism" which becomes poisonous quickly as you up the dosage). When you nationalize an industry, you socialize it. When you socialize an industry you nationalize it. Yes, international socialism rejected this formulation. And that's why international socialism failed! People wanted to be Germans or Russians or Italians and they wanted to be socialists. Even the Soviet Union embraced national-socialism (socialism in one country) because that 'workers of the world unite' crap wouldn't fly. After Stalin, no Communist or socialist regime failed to exploit nationalism to one extent or another. — Jonah Goldberg

The Israelis object to an imposed settlement I don't know what they mean by an imposed settlement. It's quite obvious, without the all out support by the United States in money and weapons and so on the Israelis couldn't do what they've been doing. So we bear a very great share of the responsibility for the continuation of this ... of this state of warfare. — J. William Fulbright

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct. — Henri Rousseau

I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out. — George Carlin

I stopped opposite the counter and looked back up at him. "Have I told you you're an asshole today?"
"You just got up, so, no."
"You're an asshole."
He grinned again. — Kristen Ashley

The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. — Patrick Ness

Nature made us ... nature did it all ... not the gods of the religions. — Thomas A. Edison

In the throes of passion, I threw out an I love you. Did I mean it? Does a dictionary mean what it says? — Jarod Kintz

It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all. — Richard Wagner