If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him bec...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give you...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itse...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us fr...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the fles...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized ri...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares ...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorou...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a ...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him,...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor ...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no view...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the worl...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our pers...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is ...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familia...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of ten...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for ...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ri...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him beco...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet ...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rati...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often go...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back u...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and un...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corr...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, o...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this i...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the wor...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY Institutions -- government, churches, industries, and the like -- have properly no other function th...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in to...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillit...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized r...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthi...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him ...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no vi...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious thing...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on t...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, o...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions o...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY Each man must have his ''I''; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope ...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY ''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and ...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
MASON COOLEY Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
MASON COOLEY Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
MASON COOLEY A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
MASON COOLEY There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of th...
MASON COOLEY Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.
MASON COOLEY Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
MASON COOLEY Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
MASON COOLEY Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
MASON COOLEY Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved
MASON COOLEY I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.
MASON COOLEY Indifference creates an artificial peace.
MASON COOLEY Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.
MASON COOLEY A blocked path also offers guidance.
MASON COOLEY Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
MASON COOLEY Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
MASON COOLEY Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
MASON COOLEY Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
MASON COOLEY In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
MASON COOLEY The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
MASON COOLEY Cure for an obsession: get another one.
MASON COOLEY Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
MASON COOLEY Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
MASON COOLEY Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
MASON COOLEY Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
MASON COOLEY City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
MASON COOLEY Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
MASON COOLEY If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
MASON COOLEY My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.
MASON COOLEY A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other c...
MASON COOLEY The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
MASON COOLEY We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
MASON COOLEY Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
MASON COOLEY Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.
MASON COOLEY Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
MASON COOLEY It's tough to get a really cheap Mac. It's easy to get a really cheap Windows machine.
BRIAN COOLEY We're trying to fill that void that exists in Rancho Cordova.
BRIAN COOLEY By winning a CNET Best of CES Award, Samsung's HL-S5679W sets a standard within their sector for oth...
BRIAN COOLEY By winning three CNET Best of CES Awards, Pioneer has set a standard within their respective sectors...
BRIAN COOLEY Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
MASON COOLEY Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
MASON COOLEY Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
MASON COOLEY For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
MASON COOLEY While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
MASON COOLEY Documents create a paper reality we call proof.
MASON COOLEY If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
MASON COOLEY Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
MASON COOLEY The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
MASON COOLEY An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another...
MASON COOLEY When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
MASON COOLEY Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
MASON COOLEY Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
MASON COOLEY Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
MASON COOLEY Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
MASON COOLEY The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
MASON COOLEY The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame
MASON COOLEY Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
MASON COOLEY In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
MASON COOLEY My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
MASON COOLEY The beloved is the ultimate fetish.
MASON COOLEY Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.
MASON COOLEY In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
MASON COOLEY Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
MASON COOLEY Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.
MASON COOLEY In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners
MASON COOLEY Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence
MASON COOLEY The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind
MASON COOLEY magic lives in curves, not angles
MASON COOLEY Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma
MASON COOLEY 'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
MASON COOLEY When I was younger, I was shy. I was overweight. I wore glasses. I got teased a lot, I grew up watch...
CHELSEA COOLEY The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.
MASON COOLEY Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.
MASON COOLEY If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
MASON COOLEY The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.
MASON COOLEY Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
MASON COOLEY Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.
MASON COOLEY Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
MASON COOLEY When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.
MASON COOLEY The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
MASON COOLEY They just don't make sense for (small investors). They'll get eaten up by the commissions.
SCOTT COOLEY I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.
MASON COOLEY I think there is an increasing recognition at Fidelity that fund size can really harm performance. I...
SCOTT COOLEY It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
MASON COOLEY Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
MASON COOLEY Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
MASON COOLEY The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
MASON COOLEY Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
MASON COOLEY Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
MASON COOLEY You know I have not seen people doing back flips about the fact that he's mountain biking. But I thi...
MIKE COOLEY The public has expressed legitimate concerns about [the law's] use against those who commit new, non...
STEVE COOLEY Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
MASON COOLEY Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
MASON COOLEY Brooks attacked him with a weapon that clearly could have crushed his skull. He did that in the midd...
CRAIG COOLEY In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
MASON COOLEY [And after coming on strong late last season, expectations have risen: The Redskins have made Cooley...
CHRIS COOLEY It's just tough, especially since it's the first week,
CHRIS COOLEY A lot of big plays happened when things broke down, ... The linemen picked up their blocks and guys ...
CHRIS COOLEY Mark's always good for something like that,
CHRIS COOLEY I can play a great game and have three bad plays and I'm going to go home and think about those thre...
CHRIS COOLEY It's just a matter of what gets called, that's as far as it goes, ... Whatever gets called is what w...
CHRIS COOLEY We knew it would take at least a year to build the kennel. We're getting close but we're not there y...
RODNEY COOLEY Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?
MASON COOLEY Rereading, we find a new book.
MASON COOLEY Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
MASON COOLEY Those subtle differences (in returns of index funds) make a big difference over the long term.
SCOTT COOLEY Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
MASON COOLEY Any time you let a stock run up to 40 percent of your portfolio, you have to have a lot of convictio...
SCOTT COOLEY Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over a...
MASON COOLEY Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine h...
MASON COOLEY I would be [angry] right now. Personally, if I played and got ready all offseason and in one game [w...
CHRIS COOLEY Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
MASON COOLEY Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
MASON COOLEY Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.
MASON COOLEY Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
MASON COOLEY Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
MASON COOLEY When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.
MASON COOLEY An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
MASON COOLEY General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
MASON COOLEY He (King) was throwing up a lot Friday night, so I made the decision to sit him out for a match on S...
DON COOLEY I told coach Mayer before wrestling started that this could be the day that he finally gets taken do...
DON COOLEY He's not real flashy, but very methodical. He doesn't get out of position. It's the same style you s...
DON COOLEY To win a Brooke title is quite a task, and he did it with relative ease. Dave has faced a lot of kid...
DON COOLEY Dave hasn't been taken down all season. That's quite an accomplishment.
DON COOLEY We have gotten a lot better as the season wears on. We probably won't win the WPIAL, but we could pr...
DON COOLEY I wasn't really sure what to expect coming into the season. I knew David had talent, but I certainly...
DON COOLEY Pete has come on very strong lately. He's finally figured out how to wrestle instead of just brawlin...
DON COOLEY Dave is very good defensively on his feet.
DON COOLEY It's all about family orientation. It means the team comes first.
DON COOLEY Pretty much everything eats, scavenges or parasitizes the caribou. A big chunk of the northern ecosy...
DOROTHY COOLEY Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
MASON COOLEY Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
MASON COOLEY Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
MASON COOLEY Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
MASON COOLEY