William H. Coles Quotes

A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.

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• I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.

  

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• Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.

  

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• You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.

  

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• The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.

  

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• I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

  

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• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

  

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• I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.

  

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• Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

  

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• I don't mind playing spoiler.

  

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• I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

  

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• I have a very strong belief in God.

  

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• A border collie saved me once when I was pinned under a horse in Colorado. And once when I went through the ice, one of my sled dogs saw me go under, and she got the rest of the team, and they pulled me out of 12 feet of water. I think that dogs offer the only form of unconditional love that's available to humans.

  

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• In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

  

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• The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.

  

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• From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

  

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• The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.

  

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• Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.

  

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  • Growing

• Fragrance is my favorite thing. So much so that if I leave the house and I don't put any on, I'll turn around and go back home.

  

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• One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you're not a singer, you know?

  

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• 'Baby,' I said. 'I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.'

  

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• A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.

  

  William H. Coles
  • House
  • Beautiful
  • Garden