James Cohn Quotes & Sayings

How was it possible that something so sure, a reality in which se existed for so long, could disappear in a day? — F.G. Capitanio

The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency. — Hank Johnson

That doesn't upset too many people, but the fact that accessibility restrictions don't enter into the picture has caused more than one otherwise pacifistic soul to contemplate distinctly unpacifistic actions. — Scott Meyers

When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Two weeks later General Kaledin received a deputation from his troops. 'Will you,' the asked, 'promise to divide the estates of the Cossack landlords among the working Cossacks?'

'Only over my dead body,' responded Kaledin. A month later, seeing his army melt away before his eyes, Kaledin blew out his brains. And the Cossack movement was no more... — John Reed

When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great. — Yaya Toure

I'd be more than willing to give names and phone numbers of every makeup artist I worked with. — Shannen Doherty

I have passed through fire and deep water, since we parted. I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men. — Henry David Thoreau

It's the unbroken calm, both within and without, that is getting to her. Real events happen to people, she thinks, why not me? And then there's her conviction that they are happening, all around her, but that they're being kept from her. — Margaret Atwood

In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story. — Ronald Reagan

Just because you don't believe me doesn't make me a liar. — Shayla Black