Copan Quotes

#1. It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it.

Louise Bogan

#2. Happiness is not giddiness or some overly inflated sense of being.

Asa Don Brown

#3. You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

Toni Morrison

#4. You're leaving, "she said, rising to her feet. "I knew it was coming."
"How?"
"I'm your mother. You're the breath of my lungs and the beat of my heart. I know you very well.

Lisa See

#5. Today religion is increasingly pushed aside by secularizing influences such as the university, the media, and politics. Rather than having a major voice in public life, religion has been relegated to the private and the personal.

Paul Copan

#6. Contrary to popular definitions, true tolerance means 'putting up with error' - not 'accepting all views'. We don't tolerate what we enjoy or endorse - say, chocolate, or roses, or Mozart's music. By definition, we tolerate what we don't approve of or what we believe to be false.

Paul Copan

#7. I would love to be looked at some day - and I'm not ever saying I'm at this level - but I'd love to be mentioned in the same breath as a Bowie or an Eno. Those are the people that I admire artistically, their career trajectory, the integrity throughout their career, the bravery of their career.

Trent Reznor

#8. Money was the only measure of worth, for everyone, they got no respect as mothers.

Margaret Atwood

#9. Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Robert Greene

#10. Margherita Margheritone put the pot of water on the fire and the Wicked Witch emptied the sack into it and the little wash-bear jumped out and started biting both of them, went down into the yard and started eating the hens, and threw all the rubbish into the air.

Niccolo Ammaniti

#11. Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

Cornelia Funke

#12. Serious circumstances remind us that the difficulty of finding the truth is no excuse for not looking.

Paul Copan

#13. The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. it's the dream that keeps you going then and now.

Charles Bukowski

#15. These days, though, tolerance means that you accept the other person's views as being true or legitimate. If you claim that someone is wrong, you can get accused of being intolerant
even though, ironically, the person making the charge of intolerance isn't being accepting of your beliefs.

Paul Copan

#16. Mr Garez glared at me. "I should hope so!" he said. "Look at all this mess! I should tell your mother!

Louis Catt

#17. It's the simple things in life that matter.

Andy Weir

#18. I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deeply poetic, more enjoyable.

Raymond Radiguet

#19. Atheist's denial of God's existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist's claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God's existence.

Paul Copan