James Cook Quotes

The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.

James Cook

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• You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Courage
  • Sins

• Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Forgiveness
  • Sins
  • Forgiven

• Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Lost
  • Forgiveness
  • Sins

• Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• I don't want to repeat my mistakes.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Want
  • Mistakes
  • Repeat

• You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Know
  • Characters

• Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Sins
  • Martyrdom

• Belts distract the eye from a bloated tummy, a heavy-set upper body and all manner of sins. They can be a superb way to update your wardrobe without breaking the bank, and there's no reason to stop wearing them, ever!

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Stop
  • Eye
  • Sins

• Every asset of the nation must be applied to the conflict to bring about a quick and successful outcome, or don't do it. We're in the midst of another struggle where it appears to me we haven't learned very much.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Struggle
  • Outcome
  • Asset

• Your intention rules your life and determines the outcome.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Rules
  • Outcome

• That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Good
  • Women
  • Repeat

• Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Sins
  • Flesh

• The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Body
  • Pleasure
  • Regret

• There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Person
  • Influence

• It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Done
  • Period
  • Tools

• Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Think
  • Period
  • Repeat

• Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you'll just repeat what's old.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Expect
  • Embrace
  • Repeat

• On Kosovo, let me be quite clear that NATO will not stand idly by. We will not allow a repeat of the situation of 1991 in Bosnia.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Situation
  • Repeat
  • NATO

• You can really only enjoy life when youre extremely busy.

  

  Josephine de La Baume
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Busy

• When it comes to making love, I may not be the best, but I'm damn gouda.

  

  Ryan Stiles
  • Love
  • Best
  • Comes

• But as we went on, and you keep practicing and rehearsing more and more fight scenes, it clicks and you just get it. It's almost like a soccer game. If you take enough shots on target, one of them is going to go in. As soon as it does, something happens and it just registers. I found it a lot easier after that, which was about three-quarters of the way through the shoot.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Enough

• When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Character
  • Comedy
  • Notion

• The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.

  

  James Cook
  • Sins
  • Repeat
  • Outcome