James F. Cooper Quotes

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

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• When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Dream

• I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Potential
  • Ending

• Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Life
  • Like
  • Winning

• I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Tell

• When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Day
  • Water
  • Person

• I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • English
  • Start
  • Dirty

• It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • World
  • Live
  • Die

• Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Balance
  • Makeup
  • Outfit

• Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Punishment
  • Only
  • Heal

• There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Quality
  • Difference
  • More

• You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Water

• There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • People
  • Word
  • Interview

• I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • You
  • Purpose
  • Hustler

• Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Start
  • Sound
  • Looking

• The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Issue

• The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Good
  • Real
  • Bad

• Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Once

• There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Christian
  • Logic

• I have a psychology degree, but I was a real theater rat.

  

  David Walton
  • Real
  • Psychology

• There was something about the sound of a man in pain that resembled the sound of a wounded animal.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Pain
  • Animal
  • Wounded

• I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

  

  Jeffrey Archer
  • Success
  • Grease

• A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.

  

  Zendaya
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Women

• Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm. His power toppled the mightiest of foes, and his intense light shined on America, and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Heart
  • Power
  • America

• The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

  

  James F. Cooper
  • Power