Copaken Brooks Quotes

#1. I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. We put our hope and trust in the living God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. A leader is great not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others.

John C. Maxwell

#4. We cannot really think in one way and act in another ...

Thomas Troward

#5. Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

Henry Ford

#6. Tactical catastrophes are rarely the outcome of a single poor decision. Small compromises incrementally close off options until a commander is forced into actions he would never choose freely.

Nathaniel Fick

#7. Things happen when you least expect them. Things that can change your whole life.

Lesley Kagen

#8. No one HAS to do something he doesn't want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that's what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You'll have lots of company.

Hunter S. Thompson

#9. Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

Elizabeth Bowen

#10. My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

Brigham Young

#11. All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

Raymond Chandler

#12. Consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late

Alexandra Potter

#13. Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!

John Burroughs