William Sloane Coffin Jr. quote: "So don't let money tell you who you are. Don't let power tell you who your are. Don't let enemies and -- for God's sake -- don't let your sins tell you who you are. Don't prove yourself. That's taken care of. All we have to do is express ourselves. It's difficult, but we're a lot more alive in pain than in complacency."

If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of lov...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR.

A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR.

So don't let money tell you who you are. Don't let power tell you who your are. Don't let enemies an...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR.

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than probl...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR.

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for di...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR.

When we live at each other's mercy, we had better learn to be merciful.
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR.

There is no smaller package in the world that that of a person all wrapped up in himself.
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR.

All of life is the exercise of risk.
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR.

Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word -- to science, to history, to what rea...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing ...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR.

God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR.

If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of lov...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR.

All of life is the exercise of risk.
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR.

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than probl...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR.

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for di...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR.

When we live at each other's mercy, we had better learn to be merciful.
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR.

There is no smaller package in the world that that of a person all wrapped up in himself.
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR.

Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word -- to science, to history, to what rea...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR.

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR.

A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing ...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR.

It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of ac...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR.

Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We ...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - ...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - ...
WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world
WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN

I'm not OK., you're not OK., and that's OK.!
WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never...
WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all o...
WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
HAROLD COFFIN

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.
HAROLD COFFIN

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
HAROLD COFFIN

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
HAROLD COFFIN

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything a...
HAROLD COFFIN

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
HAROLD COFFIN

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
HAROLD COFFIN

Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Su...
R.P.T. COFFIN

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything a...
HAROLD COFFIN

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
HAROLD COFFIN

When George Washington threw the dollar across the Rappahannock River, he didn't realize he was esta...
HAROLD COFFIN

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
HAROLD COFFIN

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
HAROLD COFFIN

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
HAROLD COFFIN

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
HAROLD COFFIN

I can't walk in a toy store in a foreign country without seeing a kid with a minion backpack.
PIERRE COFFIN

How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that...
PIERRE COFFIN

There are these inexpert American seamen, never in a naval battle before, on their ships waiting for...
HOWARD COFFIN

My really strong belief is that the future is with people who are entrepreneurs, who decide to start...
DON COFFIN

And we've got the lakefront, which is unique. We just have to figure out how to be able to use it.
DON COFFIN

That's a fairly high-paying industry. But at this point, it hasn't taken off yet.
DON COFFIN

And those don't pay as well.
DON COFFIN

The jobs that have replaced them don't pay as well.
DON COFFIN

We've always been a close family.
DENNIS COFFIN

Music was his interest and his life.
DENNIS COFFIN

The organ was his forte, but he was gifted with all music. He'd look at music and it would be like h...
DENNIS COFFIN

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
HAROLD COFFIN

It's the economy, stupid.
HAROLD COFFIN

Be sure to climb to the top floor in the fort's northwest corner, where narrow stairs lead up into o...
HOWARD COFFIN

These are major European powers projecting their power by building these bastions. It gets to the im...
HOWARD COFFIN

Indeed, as a view of American military history it may be rivaled only by the vista from Little Round...
HOWARD COFFIN

Plattsburgh -- the land battle -- is a place that really grabbed me,
HOWARD COFFIN

Along this corridor of history stand a lakeside tavern that once sheltered Thomas Jefferson and Jame...
HOWARD COFFIN

Right here in our back yards are the sites of battles and campaigns that are as important in our his...
HOWARD COFFIN

This list also has the merit, we hope, of leading the way at a European level, so that we get a Euro...
MAXIME COFFIN

The airlines included in the blacklist cannot operate flights in any French airport. Its publication...
MAXIME COFFIN

I try to look cute all the time.
SLOANE STEPHENS

Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually...
SLOANE CROSLEY

I was born with an evil face.
BARRY SLOANE

I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.
BARRY SLOANE

I was blessed with a good character in 'Hollyoaks,' and I cut my teeth in 'Brookside'...
BARRY SLOANE

The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it'...
SLOANE CROSLEY

Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and ...
SLOANE CROSLEY

A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leave...
ERIC SLOANE

Every day of my adult life, I have worn at least one piece of jewelry from my maternal grandmother&#...
SLOANE CROSLEY

Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place toge...
SLOANE CROSLEY

Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking; even then, the chances of being hit by a...
SLOANE CROSLEY

I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting ...
SLOANE CROSLEY

In every woman's wardrobe, there are certain accessories that cannot be separated from their bac...
SLOANE CROSLEY

Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and k...
SLOANE CROSLEY

The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one co...
SLOANE CROSLEY

Juice cleansing has been all the rage for some time. And I used the word 'rage' advisedly; o...
SLOANE CROSLEY

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nos...
SLOANE CROSLEY

was an amazingly effective, highly popular labor leader. But as a citizen, he was not good, a crimin...
ARTHUR SLOANE

Jim is tenacious, a very capable guy. He doesn't have all the strengths of his dad, and he doesn't h...
ARTHUR SLOANE

He's smart enough to know he'll be in a fish bowl. He should know he'll be under scrutiny.
ARTHUR SLOANE

Jim (the son) has a lot of those qualities, but certainly in less degree. He's very energetic, a goo...
ARTHUR SLOANE

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's part...
SLOANE CROSLEY

It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice com...
SLOANE CROSLEY

I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got ...
SLOANE CROSLEY

Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility ...
SLOANE CROSLEY

I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our ...
SLOANE CROSLEY

A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet s...
SLOANE CROSLEY

Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and thr...
SLOANE CROSLEY

I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to pe...
SLOANE CROSLEY

I love to bake, so I made vanilla bean and blueberry muffins for sick hospital children. Just kiddin...
SLOANE CROSLEY

I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by tur...
SLOANE CROSLEY

The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going hom...
SLOANE CROSLEY

Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I d...
SLOANE CROSLEY

I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero...
SLOANE CROSLEY

In general, I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so th...
SLOANE CROSLEY

There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman fe...
SLOANE CROSLEY

As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be ...
SLOANE CROSLEY

Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I'm always envious of contac...
SLOANE CROSLEY

I want to play my best tennis at the Grand Slams.
SLOANE STEPHENS

For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. ...
SLOANE CROSLEY

My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can mak...
SLOANE CROSLEY

Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking...
SLOANE CROSLEY

They say it's not the snoring itself but those anxiety-packed moments in between snorts. It'...
SLOANE CROSLEY

There's any number of suitors that could emerge in the auction.
JON SLOANE

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author...
SLOANE CROSLEY

When actors are comfortable enough, and you release all your inhibitions, and you stop judging yours...
LINDSAY SLOANE

I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I hav...
SLOANE CROSLEY

The story is untrue and hurtful and he didn't give them an interview.
LESLIE SLOANE

It's not like we haven't seen this before from every major vendor with every major product. I don't ...
TIM SLOANE

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplie...
SLOANE CROSLEY

You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don&...
SLOANE CROSLEY

There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties,...
SLOANE CROSLEY

My favorite food is macaroni and cheese that my grandma makes. My favorite drink has to be Vita Coco...
SLOANE STEPHENS

Sometimes we don't know what we want until we don't get it.
SLOANE CROSLEY

When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which...
SLOANE CROSLEY

Like most citizens of popular and international urban centres, I don't take advantage of the cul...
SLOANE CROSLEY

I kind of learned that I am way too tough of a critic on myself and that other people are not judgin...
LINDSAY SLOANE

I don't do emoticons unless I'm making a big deal out of them. I'll type out, 'This ...
SLOANE CROSLEY

I have certain rules that I've established for myself that took a while post-day job to figure o...
SLOANE CROSLEY

Puerto Rico is very important to him and the fact of the matter is this is the capital of Latin Amer...
DAVID SLOANE

He and Britney are as normal as other couples. They fight and they make up.
LESLIE SLOANE

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was lookin...
SLOANE CROSLEY

But I understand it for a short, not so serious relationship. It's OK. It's putting up boundaries an...
TERRI SLOANE

I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerou...
SLOANE CROSLEY

The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they ...
SLOANE CROSLEY

I use Ole Henriksen eye gel when I think of it, and go for facials when spa gift certificates appear...
SLOANE CROSLEY

Not all shabby is chic, just like not every porn actor is a star.
SLOANE CROSLEY

Tom Hicks said that he was going to come to Puerto Rico and give it his best shot. He did all that a...
DAVID SLOANE

For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body...
SLOANE CROSLEY

The first thing to understand is that being a vegetarian is actually a private matter. I'm still tak...
SLOANE CROSLEY

Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a r...
SLOANE CROSLEY

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-...
SLOANE CROSLEY

I train Monday through Saturday. I usually have fitness training for 90 minutes, then I'm on the...
SLOANE STEPHENS

We've come to expect so little from online privacy measures that public displays of concern abou...
SLOANE CROSLEY

I can say with a solid degree of authority that I am a selfish person. I spontaneously forget the na...
SLOANE CROSLEY

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive....
SLOANE CROSLEY

The innovator's motto is this; I succeed or I learn but I never fail.
PAUL SLOANE

She is not depressed, nor has she had a tummy tuck. She is a 23-year-old mom who was in amazing shap...
LESLIE SLOANE

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit ...
SLOANE CROSLEY

I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your ol...
SLOANE CROSLEY

You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've f...
SLOANE CROSLEY

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday, innovation is inventing tomorrow.
PAUL SLOANE

Now I have my new ambition to fly on my 100th birthday.
HERBERT SLOANE

When an aviator crashes, it's very necessary to get up there again right away.
HERBERT SLOANE

I yelled 'get me out' several times, and the next thing I knew I realized somebody was pulling me ou...
HERBERT SLOANE

We crash-landed. It was pitch black.
HERBERT SLOANE

He assigned me to a certain duty to look for a clearing while he was trying to get the engine power ...
HERBERT SLOANE

It reduced power slowly but then the power went, down, down, down.
HERBERT SLOANE

Is this what she would have wanted, Hawke?" Ronan asked quietly. "Justice at the cost of an innocent...
SLOANE KENNEDY

That photo Kevin is wearing around his neck is actually a photo of Britney as a baby,
LESLIE SLOANE

She's OK. She starts work in about two weeks.
LESLIE SLOANE

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.
LESLIE SLOANE

She's written every word and she's directing the video. It will chronicle the last year and a half o...
LESLIE SLOANE

Who do you have to sleep with to get laid in this town?
SLOANE CROSLEY

The results are good but the expectations for the bank meeting the return on equity target have been...
NICK SLOANE

We are honored to be an active member of this community, and we are proud to continue working with U...
STAN SLOANE

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
WILLIAM WRIGLEY JR.

You know, I was gonna get sick or I was gonna get injured or something. The only choice I had, the o...
WILLIAM BROYLES JR.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
WILLIAM WRIGLEY, JR.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
WILLIAM WRIGLEY JR.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecess...
WILLIAM STRUNK, JR.

Vigorous writing is concise.
WILLIAM STRUNK JR.

"Why me?" That is the soldier's first question, asked each morning as the patrols go out and each ev...
WILLIAM BROYLES JR

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
WILLIAM STRUNK JR.

Omit needless words.
WILLIAM STRUNK, JR.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.
WILLIAM STRUNK JR.

During my 17 years of employment in this building, nothing has offended me and my staff more than th...
WILLIAM TOBY JR.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
WILLIAM STRUNK, JR.

Vigorous writing is concise.
WILLIAM STRUNK, JR.

Omit needless words.
WILLIAM STRUNK JR.

Try - Takes the infinitive: "try to mend it," not "try and mend it." Students of the language will a...
WILLIAM STRUNK JR.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
HAROLD COFFIN SYRETT

Vermont's a place where barns come painted / Red as a strong man's heart, Where stout carts and stou...
ROBERT TRISTRAM COFFIN

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to ques...
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.

There are people who think I'm a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and here...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

Just think in terms of green energy and how much time, money, brain power and policy action has star...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.
WILLIAM REECE SMITH, JR.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the oth...
WILLIAM HODDING CARTER, JR.

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, le...
WILLIAM HODDING CARTER, JR.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.

It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation an...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.

My great-grandfather was a man of great vision, drive, and native intelligence, with some human flaw...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana pr...
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.

We love your adherence to democratic principles.
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.

One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made...
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease ar...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.

William Sloane Coffin Jr.

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