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
  • More
  • Difference

• 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

• Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Guy
  • Team
  • Crazy

• I still don't know what I'm going to be. I love acting. I would love to be an English teacher. I would love to be a housewife and have a chateau in the South of France, I would love to be a singer that travels to cafes around different towns.

  

  Bethany Joy Lenz
  • Different
  • English
  • Teacher

• Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.

  

  Oli Thompson
  • Winning

• If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Men
  • May

• The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march?

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Power
  • Question
  • Sufferings

• 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