T Cooper Quotes

Questions from earlier circle like buzzards. Am I running away or moving forward?

The waves splash against my face, carrying a message: Welcome, you belong here.

To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice.

Nothing worse than someone who goes to the dance, is excited to dance, dances all night, and then complains all the next day about his feet being sore.

I never get used to the faces--wide-eyed and full of possibility--staring bad at me.

Even the best buzz wears off, and you wake up more trapped than the day before.

My discontent has accumulated over the past months, searching for a leak in the dam I’ve constructed to separate my true feelings from the situation closing in around me.

Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills.

I’m like a fish in a pool, turning quickly to avoid what challenges it. My only decision is whether to go right or left to sidestep confrontation.

When compared side by side, my days can barely be distinguished from one another. The only difference is what I do after work and with whom I do it.

Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.

Word has traveled quickly that just because you're on island doesn't mean you have to be stranded---as long as you have cash.

Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience.

All that remains is to forge the #commitment. Regardless of how right everything feels, words never last.

If his choice now was to risk either sunshine with a chance of rain or heatstroke with a chance of tornado, he’d go with the sunshine.

Never dismiss anyone's value until you know him.

When confronted with challenge, I discover my inner strength.

Your father... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner.

Open for sun, closed for rain, that's the poor man's weathervane.

Mindfulness describes a "state of becoming" that places the individual beyond judgment and definition.

The things I don't are the things I have yet to learn.

You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your best in the opposite direction...

there are men who are ancient and determined enemies of the Church of Rome who live in perpetual hope of its destruction

Wow you've grown!" Yeah, that tends to happen...

Human bodies are such garbage bags.

You’ve missed a lot of things. But mostly I think you’ve missed several opportunities to leave. Let me assist you to the door so that you won’t miss this next one.

I have nowhere to go and no place I’m supposed to be. Am I lost or completely free?

...it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.

Maybe I should drown myself before I freeze to death?

The symbology of the sphinx… is to remind mankind for eternity that he is nothing more than an animal with a brain.

My hand lowered slowly to my side. It trembled. "There is no affection, " I said, each syllable a measured force of emotion I dared not allow purchase, "that will endure when treated as a thing.

My sight, hearing and strength are superior and I can fly. What more do you want?

Harry, I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it, just let it happen

For this was Christmas, which had always been a time of magic, to him and to all the world.

His life was a party which tragically came to an early end.

He also telephoned the Real Time Computer Complex on the ground floor of the Operations Wing to ask that an additional big I.B.M. computer be brought onto the line.

She understood about the comfort you can get from a small separate world, whether it's a theatre or a basketball team or the inside of a book.

Urban Fantasy is the orphan left on the doorstep that no-one knows what to do with.

The woman who emerged had to be eight feet tall. Her hair was every shade of purple, piled in buns and hanging in braids, and all of it sprinkled with gems like stars.

The inhibition of an inhibitor leads to the activation of an inhibitor of an inhibitory pathway. This is the point where most people might be tempted to give up on biochemistry!

That’s no little kid. That’s Jason Steed, the biggest damn hero you will ever see!

LYNDA (TO TINY):Look forward to the momentwhen it falls apart.Look forward to themomentwhen you mustrearrange yourheart.It might feel like theend of the world-but it's the beginning of yourart.

Maybe winning isn’t everything. One just needs to hedge the bet and minimize the risk.

Then very faintly, he heard above his head the low familiar murmur of the sea outside. At once the comfortable noise made him cheerful, and he even remembered what they were supposed to be.

It might feel like the end of the world--but it's the beginning of your art.

I wanted to fix things, obviously. You know it’s like… the planets are out of alignment when we’re fighting.

All lived lives of dignity and repression.

Jason smiled and took a sip of his coke before responding. “I’m not sure how to reply to that. I thought about just giving you a nasty look. But I see you already have one.

You don't have to be surprised when the end comes - just read the Word of God and get the full scoop!

Yet hopefully things are different now, and I'm moving on to something better rather than attempting to suck more out of the same stale situation.