Emilie Cocquerel Quotes & Sayings

Why wait? So precious is this life - this gift - this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this. — Jennifer DeLucy

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. — Philip Pullman

If you do not get chills when you set a goal, your not setting big enough goals. — Bob Proctor

Normal means lack of imagination and creativity. — Jean Dubuffet

Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do. — Emily Oster

But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will. — Philip Pullman

You're the boy who does what has to be done because no one else will. — Cassandra Clare

Upon reflection, it is relatively easy to understand how Americans come to deny the evils of mass incarceration. Denial is facilitated by persistent racial segregation in housing and schools, by political demagoguery, by racialized media imagery, and by the ease of changing one's perception of reality simply by changing television channels. There is little reason to doubt the prevailing "common sense" that black and brown men have been locked up en masse merely in response to crime rates when one's sources of information are mainstream media outlets. — Michelle Alexander

Then she says something about the universe sending us pieces of our past selves to embrace so we can heal them and I must be drunker than I thought because I don't follow her at all. — Roan Parrish

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either. — Brene Brown

A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions. — Raymond A. Spruance

Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything! — Shunryu Suzuki

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really. — Philip Larkin

she already knew this would be one of her most revisited memories, one she'd want to examine from all angles and one whose afterglow she'd want to enjoy for a long time to come. They — M.A. Larson