Daniel Cohen Quotes & Sayings

Nature is the greatest developer of art. — Anna Pavlova

Of course, I quite agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable comfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in dismay I have been describing, and it is no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through that dismay ... comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. — C.S. Lewis

Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is. — Noam Chomsky

What will allow you to enter the world of great relationships is living in accord with the simple but powerful Laws of Love. — Chris Prentiss

He reached out with his good hand, cupping her chin.
"Gretchen, don't you realise by now I would give up everything to be with you? — Anne Blankman

Could he actually be my muirn beatha dan? — Cate Tiernan

I'd always been fascinated by people who allow themselves to be so rude and irritated and foul-mouthed and hostile, but usually you can sense there's something vulnerable beneath them - a shield they use to protect that vulnerable side. Finally, when they expose that soft spot, it's kind of touching. — Paul Dano

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words are important for the mind, but the notes are for the soul. — Gil Scott-Heron

When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year. — Daniel Tammet

There is no way to stop. Writers go on writing long after it becomes financially unnecessary ... because it hurts less to write than it does not to write. — Robert A. Heinlein

Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic. — Jeffrey Kluger

God creates men, but they choose each other. — Niccolo Machiavelli

It's a funny thing, because I think that my mother and I may finally be speaking the same language. But somehow, now words don't seem as necessary — Gayle Forman

Imagined orders are not evil conspiracies or useless mirages. Rather, they are the only way large numbers of humans can cooperate effectively. Bear in mind, though, that Hammurabi might have defended his principle of hierarchy using the same logic: 'I know that superiors, commoners and slaves are not inherently different kinds of people. But if we believe that they are, it will enable us to create a stable and prosperous society. — Yuval Noah Harari

But I promise you I'll love you until the day I die.
Then he kissed her. His lips on hers were as light as a breath. And she couldn't stop the horrible thought that his touch felt like a farewell. — Anne Blankman

Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools. — Aristotle.

His voice caught. I choose you, Gretchen. Every time, I'll choose you. — Anne Blankman

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing. — William Lyon Phelps