#not

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#enticing #life #more #nothing #sea

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#change #everyone #excuses #feel #make

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it. ↗

— Tre Cool

#another #art #art form #become #doing

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#conviction #decorative #everything #fluency #forcible

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#also #art #cannot #generally #individual

They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#audience #better #doing #i #make

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#convinces #exhortations #impart #nothing #sermons

You better be looking for another pitcher. ↗

— Jeff Cooper

#better #looking #pitcher #you

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#cannot #costly #depends #enterprising #expensive

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#better #christian #coat #code #creatures