Charles Horton Cooley Quotes

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Charles Horton Cooley

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LifePowerMoreNeedOpenFields

I'd behave savagely if I had access to Bjoerk's closet.

Jenny Zhang

BehaveClosetAccessHad

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

John Guare

MoneyNew YorkCityWorldFinancial

Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's hard to be totally under the microscope.

Amy Lee

RelationshipYouSaidMeanHardHow

My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits.

Amy Chua

MotherBestDayMomSisterLimits

I was into Black Power, and my practice Oxbridge essay was a rant. The headmistress said I'd never get in with that, but she was probably wrong. I was the ideal combination: a swot who was also a bad girl.

Mary Beard

GirlPowerPracticeBlackBadWrong

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

Mary Oliver

LifePrayerThinkMy LifeBecome

I'm just very interested in how we, as people, can live the right way.

Mike O'Malley

LivePeopleWayRightJustHow

The goal for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is to give kids an opportunity to be involved in sports and hopefully learn some lessons along the way. We want to put them in a safe environment, help them if they need it and maybe they will get a scholarship to a school because of the skills that they learn. Sport is just a starting point.

Martina Navratilova

GoodOpportunitySportsSchoolHelp

I feel like kids are the perfect psychic investigators of their parents, and kids understand their parents' unconscious better than the parents ever do.

Mike Mills

ParentsBetterFeelPerfectKids

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Lord Byron

WordsSmallThinkThoughtFalling

I'm not a funny person.

Johnny Flynn

FunnyPersonFunny Person

I wouldn't exactly call it 'cooking' but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it's done.

Devon Werkheiser

WaterCookingWaitI CanDonePasta

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