Carol Cooper > Carol's Quotes

“Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement,
Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.”
― Nicolas Boileau, Oeuvres de Boileau

“On dit souvent que la mort est 'ne libiration. Pour les morts, naturellement, passque en fait pour ceux qui restent, c'est presque toujours un grandissime tracassin.”
― Andrea Camilleri

“You cannot predict the future.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”
― Eldridge Cleaver

“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
― Hilaire Belloc

“Tidy your room!”
― Carol Cooper

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

“It will happen but it will take time.”
― John Bowlby

“I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.”
― Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines