George Cooper Quotes

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'. ~ Tamora Pierce

Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it
George Cooper ~ Tamora Pierce

October's Party
October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came -
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing,
Professor Wind the band. ~ George Cooper

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life. ~ George Orwell

Ye Gods and Little Fishes," said Sir Henry, "can it be? George, it's my own particular, one and only four starred Pussy. The super Pussy of all old Pussies... ~ Agatha Christie

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity. ~ George Santayana

To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused. ~ George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

He that is master of himself will soon be master of others. ~ Henry George Bohn

I was said of these bombs (referring to FAI bombs) that they were 'impartial'; they killed then man they were thrown at and the man who threw them. ~ George Orwell

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception. ~ George Boole

Now the Taliban will pay a price. ~ George W. Bush

In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time. ~ George J. Mitchell

I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves. ~ George W. Bush

Ah, my child, you will have real troubles to fret about by and by," is the consolation we have almost all of us had administered to us in our childhood, and have repeated to other children since we have been grown up. We have all of us sobbed so piteously, standing with tiny bare legs above our little socks, when we lost sight of our mother or nurse in some strange place; but we can no longer recall the poignancy of that moment and weep over it, as we do over the remembered sufferings of five or ten years ago. Every one of those keen moments has left its trace, and lives in us still, but such traces have blent themselves irrecoverably with the firmer texture of our youth and manhood; and so it comes that we can look on at the troubles of our children with a smiling disbelief in the reality of their pain. Is there any one who can recover the experience of his childhood, not merely with a memory _of_ what he did and what happened to him, of what he liked and disliked when he was in frock and trousers, but with an intimate penetration, a revived consciousness of what he felt then, when it was so long from one Midsummer to another; what he felt when his school fellows shut him out of their game because he would pitch the ball wrong out of mere wilfulness; or on a rainy day in the holidays, when he didn't know how to amuse himself, and fell from idleness into mischief, from mischief into defiance, and from defiance into sulkiness; or when his mother absolutely refused to let him h ~ George Eliot

Dodo!" exclaimed Celia, looking after her in surprise. "I never heard you make such a comparison before." "Why should I make it before the occasion came? It is a good comparison: the match is perfect. ~ George Eliot

Why, hello, Death. Long time no see. As you can see, I just couldn't stay away. The creeping things called out to Me. Anyway, what brings you here?- God ~ George Pendle

On August 26 the Assembly responded by conferring French citizenship upon Joseph Priestley, Jeremy Bentham, William Wilberforce, Anacharsis Cloots, Johann Pestalozzi, Thaddeus Kosciusko, Friedrich Schiller, George Washington, Thomas Paine, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. ~ Will Durant

His faith was like the radar of a bat, it took him through the darkness that surrounded him. It would guide him through everything that evil would throw at him. When his body gave up, God's powers lifted him up and kept his heart thumping. ~ Mark A. Cooper

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. ~ George Santayana

The Beatles are now history, and it would be unhealthy to try to make my way as a former member. I must admit I occasionally listen to our records, but usually it's not deliberate. I'm more concerned with the present, with working out my own individual style and producing something new and worthwhile. ~ George Harrison

the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride. It ~ George R R Martin

I just remember, all I'm doing is remembering when I was a kid I remember that they used to put out there in the old west, a wanted poster. It said: "Wanted, Dead or Alive." All I want and America wants him brought to justice. That's what we want. ~ George W. Bush

Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilize their country. ~ George W. Bush

No, it's not [a book] Lana. It's an allegorical novella about Stalinism by George Orwell, and spoiler alert, IT SUCKS. ~ Sterling Archer

Look beyond the present to the place you long to be ~ George Bank Jc

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy. ~ George William Russell

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey. ~ George MacDonald

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. ~ George Orwell

You wouldn't know it, from some of the things I've said over the years, but I like people ... I do ... I like people, but I like them in short bursts. I don't like people for extended periods of time. I'm all right with them for a little while, but once you get past around a minute, minute-and-a-half, I gotta get the f*** outta there. ~ George Carlin

Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes.
[Who hath none to still him, may weep out his eyes.] ~ George Herbert

I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district. ~ Jim Costa

Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on
that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't. ~ George Eliot

There will be pain." (Qyburn)
"I'll scream." (Jaime Lannister)
"A great deal of pain." (Qyburn)
"I'll scream very loudly." Jaime Lannister) ~ George R R Martin

Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere. ~ George Orwell

Think not to make me afraid, for I fear nothing in the universe but that which I love the best.
I spake of the eyes of the Lord Jesus.
Then ~ George MacDonald

Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio. ~ George Will

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory. ~ George C. Marshall

Like flowing water, money and possessions are less useful when they're hoarded. ~ Elizabeth George

Surely the Mother Above loved my children more. She took so many of them away from me. ~ George R.R. Martin

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors. ~ George Gaylord Simpson

It is every man's duty to remain loyal to his rightful King, even if the lord he serves proves false. ~ George R R Martin