James Cook Quotes

The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior.

James Cook

Quotes to Explore

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

Ursula K. Le Guin
- Life
- Up
- World
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

Ira Glass
- Women
- Woman
- Year
I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

Patrick Dempsey
- Up
- Time
- Family
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

Laura Hillenbrand
- Process
- August
- Thursday
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

Fernando Botero
- Painting
- New York
- Paris
There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

Zig Ziglar
- Time
- Talent
- Knowing