Cottonwool Quotes & Sayings

Ethan, your father and I didn't break our necks to send you to private schools that taught you to say 'yep' instead of 'yes. — Kevin D. Patterson

When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can't hold 'em back. You got to work with 'em, dude. What you think, I'm just gonna do what's on the page, say 'yes sir, no sir'? I'm creatively beyond that. — Pauly Shore

Staying on the fence is safe ... until someone shoots you off! — Steven Charles

The Chinese construction of South Asia's tallest edifice, the Lotus (a Lotus Sutra in Buddhism) Tower, both points to Beijing's Peaceful Rise and unsettles some onlookers. For the nervous India and the United States, the cleverly designed and highly sophisticated rising communications tower is more than a Buddhist symbol of Peaceful Rise. — Patrick Mendis

An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock. — Jean De Lattre De Tassigny

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue. — Austin O'Malley

He alone may chastise who loves. — Rabindranath Tagore

Don't write off a book (or person, or movie) just because it had a pink, sparkly cover. — Abby McDonald

By gad, is that you, Ainswood? I haven't seen you in a dog's age. How's the gout? Still troubling you? — Loretta Chase

But, generally, the law is made by one man or one class of men. And since law cannot operate without the sanction and support of a dominating force, this force must be entrusted to those who make the laws. This fact, combined with the fatal tendency that exists in the heart of man to satisfy his wants with the least possible effort, explains the almost universal perversion of the law. Thus it is easy to understand how law, instead of checking injustice, becomes the invincible weapon of injustice. It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds. — Frederic Bastiat

And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?
John Galt — Ayn Rand

Within this hollow bed of the stream the whole range of the quarry was out of sight, except for where the just visible peak of an escarpment of spoil shelved up to the horizon's mountainous coagulations of floating cottonwool, a density of white cloud perforated here and there by slowly opening and closing loopholes of the palest blue light. — Anthony Powell

I became as hard as whipcord, but with a brain like cottonwool. — Derek Raymond

We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour? — Edward Young