James Cook Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
-
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
-
The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
-
I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
-
I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
-
The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
-
You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
-
You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
-
Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
-
I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
-
Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
-
When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
-
My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
-
Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
-
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
-
I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
-
I can never find the right bras.
-
The genius of Kate Middleton is that she hasn't gone too far. She's still dressing in a way that people can relate to.
-
Ability is noting without opportunity.
-
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
-
I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
-
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is manifested by individuals here and there; but the web of human history as a whole appears to be woven from folly and childish vanity, often, too, from puerile wickedness and love of destruction: with the result that at the end one is puzzled to know what idea to form of our species which prides itself so much on its advantages.
-
No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.
