#me

The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it. ↗

— Tim Cook

#given #happen #his #life #name

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#american #british #embrace #enthusiasm #especially

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#love #meaning #meaning of #more #silences

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#fellow men #fulfilling #habit #his #incurable

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#america #aware #become #come #country

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#contribute #fail #far #freedom #function

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#change #complaining #complaints #never #reduce

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#friends #never #sometimes

Young men preen. Old men scheme. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#old #old men #scheme #young #young men

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#cherish #goodwill #mercy #mind #nor