#ok

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#beauty #building #construction #foundation #look

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#directly #eyes #hide #into #lie

It took me 40 years to write my first book. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#first #me #took #write #years

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares? ↗

— Joel Coen

#amount #amusing #because #behave #cares

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#awareness #becomes #begin #being #disappears

When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#cringe #documentary #i #look #way

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#also #could #his #i #life

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#call #department #down #fire #house

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#every #logic #philosopher #picture #pure

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#compassionate #conservatism #desire #faith #faith-based