Coles Quotes

#1. No more like together than is chalke to coles.

Thomas More

#2. It has always been an irony to me that the 'religious right' has come under so much attack for being involved in politics when the black community has been doing it for hundreds of years. The Reverend Jesse Jackson is rarely, if ever, attacked for his involvement in politics.

Kay Coles James

#3. I value science
none can prize it more,
It gives ten thousand motives to adore:
Be it religious, as it ought to be,
The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.

Abraham Coles

#4. We are the creature of language, and through language we affirm ourselves, we find out about the world, including ourselves, through words, and we share with one another through language.

Robert Coles

#5. I'm ready to meet a nice man!

Kim Coles

#6. Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.

Abraham Coles

#7. Even if I wasn't an actress or a comedian, I would be spreading love and laughter [with] whatever I did.

Kim Coles

#8. The power to bind and loose to Truth is given:
The mouth that speaks it is the mouth of Heaven,
The power, which in a sense belongs to none,
Thus understood belongs to every one.

Abraham Coles

#9. True love is humble, thereby is it known;
Girded for service, seeking not its own;
Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.

Abraham Coles

#10. Everyone came here to do something magnificent.

Kim Coles

#11. Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.

Abraham Coles

#12. I'm happy to get up in the morning. I'll tell you a little secret: I still want to work in Hollywood. However, I get really excited about getting on a plane, flying to a city, and talking to a group of people about finding the gifts they already have inside.

Kim Coles

#13. Don't be concerned with how many followers you have, be concerned with where you are leading them.

Kim Coles

#14. There's a lesson in everything. Looking for the lesson is grounding.

Kim Coles

#15. I like knowing what makes people tick and wakes me stop ticking, like clocks.

Jay Coles

#16. You should only be doing the thing that makes you happy. Not just surface happy.

Kim Coles

#17. Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed?

Abraham Coles

#18. The cure for moving too fast is just to slow down.

William E. Coles Jr.

#19. O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet,
Completing him not otherwise complete!
How void and useless the sad remnant left
Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.

Abraham Coles

#20. The criticism usually goes only to the religious right. 'Bigots,' 'intolerant,' 'hateful' - those labels get slapped on quickly and usually when we are winning debates and scoring points against liberals.

Kay Coles James

#21. On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep
Descends the solemn mystery of sleep,
Toiling and climbing to the very close,
The weary Body, longing for repose,
On the gained level of the day's ascent,
Halts for the night and pitches there its tent.

Abraham Coles

#22. I'm happy to get up in the morning.

Kim Coles

#23. Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

Robert Coles

#24. Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference.

Robert Coles

#25. The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets
To rise, ascend, and culminate above
Eternity's horizon evermore.

Abraham Coles

#26. Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.

Abraham Coles

#27. You should only be doing that thing that lights up your soul.

Kim Coles

#28. I flew north to Chiang Mai, near the Burmese border, and went for a walk round town and within thirty seconds a young man appeared in front of me. 'You wanna fuck my sister?' he asked. I said no. 'You wanna fuck me?' I said no, but

Richard Coles

#29. Feelings. Fade. Memories. Stick. Kind of like honey.

Jay Coles

#30. For all the venom and fear spewed at members of the 'religious right,' most of today's churches are left alone ... the nonreligious tend to look at our churches as benign institutions that create a placid and docile citizenry, having little impact on our culture.

Kay Coles James

#31. A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.

William H. Coles

#32. Eternity! How know we but we stand
On the precipitous and crumbling verge
Of Time e'en now, Eternity below?

Abraham Coles

#33. Nothing will ruin your life more than thinking you should have your life together already.

Jay Coles

#34. Herbes ... comfort the wearied braine with fragrant smells which yielde a certaine kind of nourishment.

William H. Coles

#35. It is in my soul to spread love and laughter.

Kim Coles

#36. Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.

Abraham Coles

#37. I just want a life that's full of up-leveled joy. And I'm ready to meet a nice man! Put that out there, too.

Kim Coles

#38. Ambitious intelligence [is] a force that can demolish the 'heart's reasons' - namely, a warm empathy, a considerateness toward others, a willingness, even, to let them become one's teachers, however humble or troubled their lives.

Robert Coles

#39. Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!

Abraham Coles

#40. Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.

Abraham Coles

#41. I examine it [pain] every which way. Why do I really feel this way? What's going on here? I have to really explore it all the way out, drill it down to its lowest common denominator and go, Oh! That's what that is. I'm feeling insecure. Or, Oh! God has something better for me.

Kim Coles

#42. O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.

Abraham Coles

#43. GIFTS is an acronym for Gratitude, Intention, Forgiveness, Triumphs, and Self-love. I believe that those are the principles we need to explore in order to discover our true gifts.

Kim Coles