#ura

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#cannot #discourage #ever #failures #had

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#body #challenge #corresponding #declaration #duly

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#because #breeding #early #easy #easy-going

Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#believes #earth #hold #motion #natural

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you. ↗

— Alan Coren

#act #cannot #designation #god #happen

The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge. ↗

— John Corigliano

#challenge #composers #concert #concert hall #enormous

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#forget #invention #lives #long #much

If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended. ↗

— John Cornyn

#american #american people #certainly #compulsory #congress

If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#competition #encourages #his #knocked #out

Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#because #going #got #held #i