Cowells Overview Quotes & Sayings

The heart makes incomprehensible choices. — Bernadette Strachan

She opened her mouth once to speak, closed it, then finally ripped out, "Why aren't you on your way home? I gave you an order, Lieutenant!" Stuben, anticipating a warmer reception, was momentarily nonplussed. "We took a vote," he said simply, as though it explained everything. Cordelia — Lois McMaster Bujold

To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiously, these elements, like those in physics, are volatile and potentially explosive. — Ruth Harris

Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor. — Jane Austen

When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger. — W. E. B. Griffin

All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week. — Duffy Daugherty

No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs. — Mohammad Hamid Ansari

Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense of love and duty. They now contribute to the support of someone else's parents out of compulsion and fear. The voluntary transfers strengthened the bonds of the family; the compulsory transfers weaken those bonds. — Milton Friedman

But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more! — Nathaniel Parker Willis

there are many realities — Louise Bourgeois

I should have begun to worry then, for as fortune comes to you, so does it slip away. — Alice Hoffman