William Sloane Coffin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
-
Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
-
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
-
Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
-
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
-
My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
-
I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
-
Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
-
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
-
Dance should mean something to you.
-
Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
-
To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
-
Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
-
I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
-
I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
-
We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
-
It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
-
Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
-
We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved foe a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable.
-
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
-
If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales.
-
A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.
-
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
-
Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
