How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
PARKS COUSINS A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of i...
NORMAN COUSINS A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds toge...
NORMAN COUSINS A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing ...
NORMAN COUSINS People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of the...
NORMAN COUSINS He who keeps his cool best wins.
NORMAN COUSINS Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
NORMAN COUSINS What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they...
NORMAN COUSINS If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
NORMAN COUSINS Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
NORMAN COUSINS The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his mean...
NORMAN COUSINS If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. ...
NORMAN COUSINS In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsib...
NORMAN COUSINS Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
NORMAN COUSINS War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
NORMAN COUSINS All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
NORMAN COUSINS Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its eff...
NORMAN COUSINS Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
NORMAN COUSINS The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dag...
NORMAN COUSINS Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form ...
NORMAN COUSINS History is a vast early warning system.
NORMAN COUSINS We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to l...
NORMAN COUSINS The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the...
NORMAN COUSINS Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
NORMAN COUSINS Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The w...
NORMAN COUSINS Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives ...
NORMAN COUSINS A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of i...
NORMAN COUSINS Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can ...
NORMAN COUSINS A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods...
NORMAN COUSINS The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the pu...
NORMAN COUSINS The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of...
NORMAN COUSINS Cynicism is intellectual treason.
NORMAN COUSINS Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard d...
NORMAN COUSINS Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thi...
NORMAN COUSINS The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your re...
NORMAN COUSINS Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
NORMAN COUSINS Laughter is inner jogging.
NORMAN COUSINS Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
NORMAN COUSINS The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the p...
NORMAN COUSINS The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the ...
NORMAN COUSINS If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it m...
NORMAN COUSINS We will not have peace by afterthought.
NORMAN COUSINS A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
NORMAN COUSINS It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use...
NORMAN COUSINS Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
NORMAN COUSINS The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
NORMAN COUSINS Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.
NORMAN COUSINS Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
NORMAN COUSINS Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
NORMAN COUSINS Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
NORMAN COUSINS Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its e...
NORMAN COUSINS We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the h...
NORMAN COUSINS Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that i...
MARGARET COUSINS “Christmas, in its final essence, is for grown people who have forgotten what children know. Chris...
MARGARET COUSINS The bank called me and told me to expect a big negative chunk because Northwest had declared bankrup...
JOHN COUSINS Anything my sister cooked was good. On Christmas morning, she always served ham and fried apples, wi...
CHARLES COUSINS We've worked with the county for several years on the issue to minimize the impact on our desire to ...
CHARLES COUSINS People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first re...
NORMAN COUSINS Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can...
NORMAN COUSINS This is how it needs to be in life. Solomon also wrote these words in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV) "Two...
KIRK COUSINS The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the contr...
NORMAN COUSINS The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning hu...
NORMAN COUSINS It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to prob...
NORMAN COUSINS The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much...
NORMAN COUSINS Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions
NORMAN COUSINS Life is an adventure in forgiveness
NORMAN COUSINS Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of ...
ROBIN COUSINS The quality of what he does is streets ahead of what everybody else is doing -- across the board wit...
ROBIN COUSINS Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating s...
ROBIN COUSINS Skating is now retro and hip.
ROBIN COUSINS Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.
ROBIN COUSINS No one really knows enough to be a pessimist
NORMAN COUSINS Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis ca...
NORMAN COUSINS The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us
NORMAN COUSINS The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.
NORMAN COUSINS Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiratio...
NORMAN COUSINS Pessimism operates in a narrowed field of vision that fails to take into account the possibilities a...
NORMAN COUSINS The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the p...
NORMAN COUSINS All things are possible once enough human beings realize that the whole of the human future is at st...
NORMAN COUSINS In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsib...
NORMAN COUSINS The way a book is read which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to ...
NORMAN COUSINS For every low there is an equal but opposite high.
NORMAN COUSINS I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when th...
NORMAN COUSINS Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours ...
NORMAN COUSINS Pessimism is a waste of time
NORMAN COUSINS Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the ...
NORMAN COUSINS I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards.
ROBIN COUSINS My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
NORMAN COUSINS Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I wa...
ROBIN COUSINS Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks differe...
NORMAN COUSINS I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.
ROBIN COUSINS What this does is, it offers a lot more flexibility than we had earlier proposed. It gets away from ...
CHARLES COUSINS Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destruct...
NORMAN COUSINS The way a book is read- which is to say,
the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as m...
NORMAN COUSINS A large group of individuals fell through the Sheetrock. These people were in the crawl space and fe...
JANE COUSINS Obviously this is alarming to us. Whenever we have any fatal collisions, we always look at what the ...
JANE COUSINS This is very alarming to us. Whenever we have a serious collision, we look at many factors, includin...
JANE COUSINS Champions are built on a thousand invisible mornings.
KIRK COUSINS People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I ...
ROSA PARKS Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and,...
ROSA PARKS I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... In...
ROSA PARKS It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel l...
ROSA PARKS Why do you all push us around?
ROSA PARKS My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
ROSA PARKS Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions ...
ROSA PARKS I don't think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race. The only way for...
ROSA PARKS I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around...
ROSA PARKS As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people cou...
ROSA PARKS I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing wha...
ROSA PARKS God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
ROSA PARKS I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
ROSA PARKS The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these do...
GORDON PARKS Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I re...
GORDON PARKS Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human be...
ROSA PARKS You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient f...
ROSA PARKS The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute accepts people of any race. We don't discriminate against a...
ROSA PARKS You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.
GORDON PARKS There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason a...
ROSA PARKS I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also fre...
ROSA PARKS I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I wo...
ROSA PARKS I don't think we're going to have an option.
BERNARD PARKS It's the timing, closeness and proximity,
BERNARD PARKS Not all the speculation by friends, relatives, prior employees that have some judgment about individ...
BERNARD PARKS Having known Mr. Patton for a number of years personally, it was a shock to me to find this incident...
BERNARD PARKS We've had many times when a judge makes decisions that are inaccurate, and that's why we have an app...
BERNARD PARKS The NFL is going to have a say on who's going to come here. The Coliseum has no role in selecting a ...
BERNARD PARKS We have taken since September to this date to investigate what Perez has said he has done as an offi...
BERNARD PARKS We have to be in a situation that understands the importance of some of this evidence, ... There may...
BERNARD PARKS We're just pleased that he did not carry out a more spectacular plan,
BERNARD PARKS I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for i...
GORDON PARKS Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the sal...
ROSA PARKS I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, tau...
ROSA PARKS I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and,...
GORDON PARKS I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and wil...
GORDON PARKS But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is enterin...
GORDON PARKS At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other d...
ROSA PARKS The band was an extracurricular activity. But Earl had the ability to encourage people and push them...
BOB PARKS I was so happy to meet an upbeat, understanding person such as Earl Mays because in the time I was a...
BOB PARKS If this settles the issue and allows us to move on with our business, then that's what I'm going to ...
BOB PARKS This has become almost surreal. I don't think I'd be much of a person if I allowed one special-inter...
BOB PARKS That's raised his stock in my eyes.
BOB PARKS The concept really is driven by need and our need to attract teachers. If we employ about 2,400 new ...
BOB PARKS A lot of makers and inventors are really proud of their barbecue-powered pool heater, or whatever it...
BOB PARKS When I read in the newspaper that he was going to Jacksonville, I'd have preferred that he at least ...
BOB PARKS And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at...
GORDON PARKS The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
ROSA PARKS Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the...
ROSA PARKS Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
ROSA PARKS My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
ROSA PARKS Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
ROSA PARKS It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made and demand and I just didn't feel lik...
ROSA PARKS I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and pro...
ROSA PARKS I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
ROSA PARKS I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what mu...
ROSA PARKS I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better da...
ROSA PARKS Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over...
ROSA PARKS Each person must live their life as a model for others.
ROSA PARKS The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of fai...
GORDON PARKS It's very sad, very sad, ... He was just as close to me as if he was my own grandson, and I felt tha...
ROSA PARKS In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport i...
ROSA PARKS [Superior Court Judge Bernard J. Schwartz described Parks' relationship as] schoolgirl infatuation ....
CAROL PARKS Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a h...
GORDON PARKS Money is available to but people are not applying. We urge people who are eligible to apply now and ...
WENDY PARKS The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibit...
GORDON PARKS Terence was one of the people I was listening to a lot back then. After I worked with him, I thought...
AARON PARKS He seems enthusiastic about us as instrumentalists and composers. He likes what we do, so he says he...
AARON PARKS I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.
ROSA PARKS No,
ROSA PARKS I didn't want to. I didn't think I should have to. I didn't feel that it was the right thing for us ...
ROSA PARKS You may do that,
ROSA PARKS It's very sad, very sad,
ROSA PARKS I heard that she sat down on the bus. That is all that I know. They don't tell you too much about th...
ROSA PARKS People are exploiting it, ... We are very concerned about that.
ROSA PARKS I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
ROSA PARKS failing to obey the order of bus driver.
ROSA PARKS I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... and other people would be also fr...
ROSA PARKS I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better da...
ROSA PARKS I only knew that [as] I was being arrested it was the last time I would ever ride in humiliation of ...
ROSA PARKS Mother Parks, take your rest.
ROSA PARKS so that the citizens of the United States may pay their last respects to this great American.
ROSA PARKS Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet,...
ROSA PARKS Her act of civil disobedience, for which she was willing to pay the price to end the rein of terror,...
ROSA PARKS She put out a persona that wasn't really her. Once I found out who she really was, I found out she w...
SINGIN PARKS [The prosecutor played recorded telephone conversations between the couple in which Parks expressed ...
CAROL PARKS They're winners, everyone!
BERT PARKS The results in this department reflects a high level of officer enthusiasm to do their job, and that...
BERNARD PARKS there are very few clues ...
BERNARD PARKS We can't ignore that the federal government, the FBI, is certainly going to have a role in this,
BERNARD PARKS We file thousands of cases a year as a police agency, ... We know what the criteria is to file a cas...
BERNARD PARKS We need the federal government because of a couple of issues, ... We believe that there may be issue...
BERNARD PARKS We look forward to this partnership, to get to the bottom of, to resolve this scandal,
BERNARD PARKS I think it's been really successful. You can just tell a lot of kids are really responding.
ASHLEY PARKS I was always a freak about nature when it came to animals.
ASHLEY PARKS A lot of people do it on their own because the prices are kind of expensive, like, $50 to get a pier...
AMANDA PARKS A lot of people do it on their own because the prices are kind of expensive, like $50 to get a pierc...
AMANDA PARKS It has a lace cap bloom that is not terribly impressive to me. I am waiting to see if the fall color...
LES PARKS I was just trying to let them know how I felt about being treated as a human being,
ROSA PARKS the real reason of my not standing up was I felt that I had a right to be treated as any other passe...
ROSA PARKS At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this, ... It was just a day like any oth...
ROSA PARKS Folks need to learn to keep their engine shrouds clean.
MIKE PARKS