James Cook Quotes

Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.

James Cook

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• I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Education
  • Information

• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Life
  • Dead
  • Alive

• Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Internet

• When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Him

• I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • Life
  • Matter
  • My Life

• When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Questions

• I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Think
  • Perfect

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Words

• We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Blessing

• There is nothing more important in life than love.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Important
  • Love

• The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Life
  • Loves
  • Roads

• Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Life
  • You
  • Percent

• I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Life
  • Good
  • Road

• There are elements to my faith which are echoed very closely in the scripts that come through. I read certain moments, and I'm able to say, 'Yes, I recognize that. I champion that. I ally myself to that idea.' Then there are times where I don't. My feeling is, at this stage in my life, that it will be an ongoing struggle.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Faith

• I would say to anyone starting out that if their priority in life is happiness, then don't be a musician.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Life
  • Priority

• I collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time.

  

  Svetlana Alexievich
  • Life
  • Time
  • Collect

• I want to write something that celebrates life, that's fun to listen to.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Life
  • Fun

• The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Stop
  • Learning
  • Suffering

• Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.

  

  James Cook
  • Life
  • Victim
  • Trapped