Leonard Cohen Quotes

I swept the marble chambers, But you sent me down below. You kept me from believing Until you let me know: That I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, You forbid delivery.

Leonard Cohen

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• I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Good
  • Why
  • Book

• I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Game
  • Myself
  • Year

• My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Good
  • Dad
  • Mom

• The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Fun
  • Way
  • Me

• And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Time
  • Successful
  • Comfortable

• I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Love
  • Hard
  • For Him

• A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • School
  • House

• If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • People
  • Belief
  • Islam

• I've always had a longstanding dream, ever since I was a kid, where I was running on a big lake of ice and I kept running and kept running, just about to where I was trying to get to, and I fell through the ice, and then I couldn't find the hole where I fell through to get back out again.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Trying
  • Dream
  • Running

• In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • School
  • Africa
  • Secondary

• I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Style
  • Cool
  • Sex

• I take very seriously my responsibility as Secretary-General to make sure that the United Nations is doing everything it can to uphold the universal prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Responsibility
  • Doing

• I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Good
  • Enough
  • Good People

• Alas! that every lovely thingLives only but for withering,-That spring rainbows and summer shineEnd but in autumn's pale decline.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Summer
  • Spring
  • Autumn

• Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, 'turn on and drop out, man' - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Believe

• It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.

  

  Lewis Thomas
  • Experience
  • Childhood

• All our scientific observations of the universe and quanta can only, in the end, be observations of ourselves.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Universe

• I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.

  

  Bianca Jagger

• The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Art
  • Truth
  • True

• I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • People

• I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Easy

• Every actor just wants good writing.

  

  Jeff Daniels
  • Good
  • Writing

• Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.

  

  Erin O'Connor
  • Growing
  • Crush
  • Shops

• I swept the marble chambers, But you sent me down below. You kept me from believing Until you let me know: That I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, You forbid delivery.

  

  Leonard Cohen