Couten Cook Quotes & Sayings

Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis — Albert Einstein

If there be any among those common objects of hatred which I can safely say I doe contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, vertue and religion, the multitude, that numerous piece of monstrosity, which taken asunder seeme men, and the reasonable creatures of God; but confused together, make but one great beast, & a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra; it is no breach of Charity to call these fooles; it is the stile all holy Writers have afforded them, set down by Solomon in canonicall Scripture, and a point of our faith to beleeve so. — Thomas Browne

What is true is sacred. What has been suffered. What is beautiful. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There is no life that does not contribute to history. — Dorothy West

Everywhere we went, every step we took, girls stopped talking and turned to stare. I'd never seen anything like it. But then, I don't suppose they'd ever seen anything like Reason.
We found two seats together in the middle of the room and sat down while a low murmur of noise filled the lecture hall. It sounded like several hundred girls breathing "squee" all at once. I figured I might as well get used to it. — Taylor Longford

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. — Alice Walker

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable. — Augustine Of Hippo