Norman Cousins Quotes

Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

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• Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Trying
  • Team
  • Myself

• If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Know
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Never
  • Matter

• Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • India
  • Some
  • Nationalism

• I'm a typical California boy.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • Boy
  • California
  • Typical

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Money
  • Success
  • Miserable

• All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Good
  • Give
  • Ourselves

• Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • May

• I was born not too far from Minneapolis, so it's nice to come back and visit.

  

  Marion Ross
  • Nice

• I'm getting Puppetmasters, too. They're one of my favorites. And they're coming out with new Puppetmasters. I try not to get everything, but I want so much.

  

  Jason Mewes

• Whether I'm in the main event or on the preliminary card, the same Cowboy is going to be out there.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Cowboy

• If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun.

  

  Carol Channing
  • Fun
  • Lost

• Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

  

  Bil Keane
  • Why
  • Future
  • Today

• My Marxism has taken root and become purified. I believe in armed struggle as the only solution for those peoples who fight to free themselves, and I am consistent with my beliefs.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Taken

• I am not one of those who see war as a cricket match where you first give anything to defeat the opponent and then shake hands

  

  Douglas Bader
  • War

• I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs, the GREs, the GMATs, the MCATs. I just took them for fun.

  

  Jose Ferreira
  • Fun
  • Taken

• Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge....wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. Just because Miss Brooke was hasty in her trust, it is not therefore clear that Mr. Casaubon was unworthy of it.

  

  George Eliot
  • Knowledge
  • Trust
  • Wonder

• If the egalitarian wishes to realise his ideal, given the unpromising nature of his material, he might consider rendering all persons equally dead, for perhaps only thus could he eradicate any difference.

  

  D. Michael Quinn
  • Nature
  • Wish
  • Differences

• Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Feels
  • Enough
  • Hands

• Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Laughter
  • Hours
  • Minutes