Morris Raphael Cohen Quotes

Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions.

Morris Raphael Cohen

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• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

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

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Quality
  • Difference
  • More

• Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Man
  • Purpose

• All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

  

  Sade Adu
  • Live
  • Me
  • Thanks

• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Past
  • Change
  • Peace

• Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Baseball
  • Percent
  • Mental

• For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Work
  • Waiting
  • Painting

• Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Just
  • Go
  • Pants

• The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • You
  • Respect
  • United Nations

• I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Years
  • Old
  • Over

• The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.

  

  Barbara Ann Scott
  • Important
  • Want
  • Skating

• The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Saying

• Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Great
  • Think
  • Humble

• Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Life
  • Imagination
  • Empty

• My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Parents
  • Choice
  • Gang

• You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Great
  • Job
  • Law

• Most inventions are based on some prior history.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • History
  • Most
  • Inventions

• The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Power
  • Education

• Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Long
  • Why
  • She

• American commentators always ridicule the Japanese as being outdated because of company loyalty. 21 year olds that work in coffee shops don't want to admit it, but their system of "being in a band" is working the same way.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Company
  • Coffee
  • Japanese

• You try to make them comfortable so they can do what they're best at, and make them shine. You always want to make an actor shine. I'm of the mind that there's no one - you, your mother, anyone, that if in the right place at the right time in the right context, couldn't shine in a movie. And so if it means, "Oh, I have to make them uncomfortable," then whatever it takes to get what I need up onscreen. It's all in the service of the story.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Mother

• The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

  

  Kay Boyle
  • Decision
  • Acceptance
  • Intellectual

• Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.

  

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Pain

• Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions.

  

  Morris Raphael Cohen
  • Decision
  • Mass
  • Isolated