Rushen Coatie Quotes & Sayings

In my long life, I have known some great economists, but I have never counted myself among their number nor walked in their company. — Ronald Coase

You can have me the way i am - bad behavior included - or not at all. — Stephenie Meyer

Were there always to be more damage, damage would be an aspect of perfection. We would all be angels, one-legged and faceless, seething with endless, hopeless praise. Bless Adonai for making us better than angels. Blessed is Adonai for making us human. — Adam Levin

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions! — Logan Pearsall Smith

You have so mamy different personas. The one i meet in Dublin, the one who speaks on the phone.
There are a few other bonos: the one who writes in the morning, the one who performs in front of crowds, the one who addresses U.S congressmen, and of course the one who now sits on the board of elevation partners.
Of course the same person shelters all those different roles.
All art is an attempt to identify yourself. You try out many different characters on the way to finding the one that most fits you, and therefore is you. I mean, all children do. I'm adolescence, you see them trying out different sides of their personality. So I'm just exploring and trying to find out what I'm capable of. — Michka Assayas

In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That was their workforce. The Israeli relationship to the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories is totally different. They just don't want them. — Noam Chomsky

Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. — Samuel Johnson

Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired. — Terry Eagleton

We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores of time uncreated, then when the dazzling dark breaks over the far slopes of time, then it's time to toss things, like our reason, and our will; then it's time to break our necks for home.
There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times. — Annie Dillard

Trust in your own self more than in all else. — Ernest Holmes