James Cook Quotes

Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.

James Cook

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• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Nature

• I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Beauty

• I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Good
  • Different

• I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Team
  • Tennis
  • Volleyball

• In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Everybody
  • Campaign
  • Must

• The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Long
  • Together
  • Success

• I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Me

• It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

  

  Kate Millett
  • People
  • Believe
  • See

• I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Done
  • Weird
  • Doing

• In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Home
  • Knowledge
  • City

• There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

  

  Camilo Jose Cela
  • History
  • Man
  • Endure

• Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Success
  • Victory
  • Obstacles

• Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • English
  • Flourish

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it's living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to maintain this sense of, 'Why do I do what I do?'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Change

• Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.

  

  Vernon Howard

• I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Want
  • Film
  • Albums

• All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Worry
  • Calculate

• I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Different
  • History
  • Enjoy

• Hanson is not the pop band that a lot of people think we are. I think we're a lot more rooted in a lot of music history... we're songwriters, we're singers, we're players first. We're not entertainers, we're not celebrities, and frankly, we don't really want to be.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • History

• I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Fighting
  • Spirit
  • Army

• Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Change
  • Force
  • saw

• The gun livens things up. The colonized European comes alive, not to the subject and problem of the violence of our circumstances, but because all armed actions subjects the force of circumstances to the force of events.

  

  Andreas Baader
  • Force
  • Gun
  • Circumstances

• Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.

  

  James Cook
  • Force
  • Welfare
  • Corrosive