William Sloane Coffin Quotes

We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.

William Sloane Coffin

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• To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Change
  • Color
  • Makeup

• Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Why
  • Home
  • Dying

• I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Help
  • Stories
  • Young

• What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Man

• I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Know
  • Kind

• Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • May
  • Remember
  • Strong

• For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Couple

• Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Respect
  • Understand
  • Try

• These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Power
  • Equality

• No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Book
  • House
  • Lost

• What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Fear
  • Interesting
  • Question

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• For years I've been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Rick James T-shirts. We don't have any icons or idols to look up to, just rappers and professional athletes.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Up
  • Years
  • Professional

• Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Women
  • Same

• In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

  

  Carl Rogers
  • May
  • Change
  • Relationship

• Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • May

• Sometimes it is hard to sing and dance at the same time, but I would rather be off and be real and genuine about it to my fans.

  

  Kesha
  • Time
  • Real
  • Dance

• If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly alienated, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all political ties or sink down into abject submission.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Political

• Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

  

  Vera Rubin
  • Science
  • Best
  • Force

• I am the oldest of three girls and the only one not named after one of my father's ex-girlfriends.

  

  Lisa Jewell
  • Father

• We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Law
  • Force