#out

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

#casualty #first #graveyard #implies #keep

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#delightful #i #merely #out #simply

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#else #ever #i #nobody #songs

There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city. ↗

— Sebastian Coe

#city #host #leave #london #make

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable. ↗

— Sebastian Coe

#believing #campaign #destined #else #feeling

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#always #aspects #clamour #competence #fame

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right. ↗

— George M. Cohan

#care #i #long #me #name

We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#denied #deserve #equal #equal rights #find

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#became #began #both #carry #cold

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#challenging #get #humans #into #know