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 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 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 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 Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks differe...
NORMAN 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 Make good habits and they will make you.
PARKS COUSINS How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
PARKS 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 This is how it needs to be in life. Solomon also wrote these words in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV) "Two...
KIRK 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 I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards.
ROBIN 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 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 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 WHEN YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE, YOU NEVER HAVE TO HIDE.
NORMAN You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can...
AMY JO COUSINS I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the ba...
NORMAN REEDUS My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
RALPH NORMAN My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do ...
RALPH NORMAN Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I t...
RALPH NORMAN I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as c...
RALPH NORMAN What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free p...
RALPH NORMAN Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan t...
RALPH NORMAN My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
RALPH NORMAN I am a businessman.
RALPH NORMAN I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
RALPH NORMAN Business creates jobs; government does not. Government creates a whole slew of jobs each time a new ...
RALPH NORMAN I believe in the free enterprise system.
RALPH NORMAN John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it...
RALPH NORMAN I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the fe...
RALPH NORMAN If you liked Mick Mulvaney's votes, you'll like my votes.
RALPH NORMAN If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the ...
MARSHA NORMAN I always get more applause than votes.
NORMAN THOMAS To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is...
NORMAN THOMAS Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara...
NORMAN THOMAS If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS I walk where I choose to walk.
NORMAN THOMAS In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it w...
NORMAN FOSTER The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
NORMAN THOMAS At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know w...
NORMAN MACLEAN The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
NORMAN DOUGLAS What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
NORMAN DOUGLAS To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
NORMAN DOUGLAS You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
NORMAN DOUGLAS The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't b...
LARRY NORMAN I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superf...
LARRY NORMAN Art is more engaging that propaganda.
LARRY NORMAN I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate ...
LARRY NORMAN Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were re...
LARRY NORMAN Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson...
LARRY NORMAN Life is God's art.
LARRY NORMAN I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really bei...
LARRY NORMAN I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism....
LARRY NORMAN We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
LARRY NORMAN I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.
MAIDIE NORMAN When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always th...
MAIDIE NORMAN I am a Republican because the United States is a republic, and the views we hold represent the found...
MAIDIE NORMAN I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their ...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no othe...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF When placed in command, take charge.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too m...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You ...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if i...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the peopl...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF The Depression was remarkable because you had nothing, and the salaries, when you got a job, were ve...
NORMAN LLOYD All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.
NORMAN WISDOM With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and...
NORMAN JEWISON Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British ...
GREG NORMAN I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.
NORMAN PARKINSON Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox breth...
NORMAN LAMM Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Je...
NORMAN DAVIES I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep mudd...
NORMAN REEDUS I've been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I'd probably just curl up and c...
NORMAN REEDUS The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationa...
NORMAN DAVIES I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I lik...
NORMAN REEDUS I voted for Nader, and I have no doubts at all that it was the right thing to do because the Nader c...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards ...
NORMAN BORLAUG How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consent...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must mak...
NORMAN ANGELL Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own m...
NORMAN ANGELL The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
NORMAN ANGELL God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except b...
NORMAN ANGELL The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war . . . by capturing the popular will. The only ...
NORMAN ANGELL Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must mak...
NORMAN ANGELL It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be ent...
NORMAN ANGELL In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime wa...
NORMAN WISDOM In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stif...
NORMAN DAVIES He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.
NORMAN MAILER Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apar...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam...
EDWARD NORMAN There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity.
NORMAN DAVIES I happen to belong to that group opinion which holds the break-up of the United Kingdom to be immine...
NORMAN DAVIES He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.
NORMAN TEBBIT I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creati...
NORMAN MAILER Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
NORMAN MAILER I can just remember the blitz of Manchester, or perhaps my father's tales about the blitz of Man...
NORMAN DAVIES Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always livi...
NORMAN MAILER Courage brother, do not stumble,
though thy path be dark as night:
There is a star to gui...
NORMAN MACLEOD Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's...
NORMAN MACLEAN The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smal...
NORMAN MAILER I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. ...
GREG NORMAN Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
NORMAN MAILER The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they wil...
NORMAN THOMAS The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.
NORMAN SHERRY America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredi...
NORMAN MAILER In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that....
NORMAN MAILER There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democrac...
NORMAN MAILER I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
NORMAN MAILER Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find...
NORMAN DOUGLAS