Charles Horton Cooley Quotes

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

Charles Horton Cooley

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• Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Action
  • Baseball
  • Slow

• When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Picture
  • Doubt

• I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Women
  • Power
  • True

• I just love playing in major championships.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Playing
  • Major
  • Championships

• Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Want
  • Goals
  • Go

• Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Real
  • Star
  • I Can

• Fashions fade, style is eternal.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Eternal
  • Fade

• I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private school kids. I want them to behave well by example.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • School
  • Kids
  • Want

• The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Together
  • Suffering

• I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • People
  • Never
  • Partner

• It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Black
  • You
  • Poor

• What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Matters

• I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Believe
  • Evolution

• When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Think
  • Song
  • First

• I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mother
  • Reading
  • Wish

• When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life. Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life; but it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • May
  • Future
  • Feeling

• It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Together
  • Action
  • Relax

• I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go.

  

  Andy Cohen
  • Time

• In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • School
  • Me
  • Interest

• I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.

  

  Jessye Norman
  • Done
  • Spanish

• Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

  

  Charles Horton Cooley