Jack Cousteau Quotes & Sayings

I don't like work ... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know. — Joseph Conrad

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime. — Simone De Beauvoir

Far too many people spend a lifetime headed in the wrong direction. They go not only from the cradle to the cubicle, but then to the casket, without uncovering their greatest talents and potential. — Tom Rath

It's the kind of smile you smile when you're thinking someone over and trying to decide how you feel about them. — Jennifer Niven

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Now you will have noticed that nothing throws him into a passion so easily as to find a tract of time which he reckoned on having at his own disposal unexpectedly taken from him. — C.S. Lewis

I am at war ... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise. — Pam Gems

Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980. — Barton Gellman

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery. — Terry Pratchett

In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes it pleased Thee to let me feel the heavy hand of Thy displeasure and to humiliate my proud heart by manifold castigations. Sickness and misfortune didst Thou send upon me to turn my thoughts to my errantries.-One thing, only, O Father, do I ask: cease not to labor for my betterment. In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to Thee and become fruitful in good works. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I remembered the last thing my mom ever told me. I'd been reluctant to use the fire escape, reluctant to leave her, but she'd gripped my arms and made me look at her. Magnus, run. Hide. Don't trust anyone. I'll find you. Whatever you do, don't go to Randolph for help. — Rick Riordan