Coterie Quotes

#1. For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

Honore De Balzac

#2. The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed.

Gary Weiss

#3. I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

Ellen Glasgow

#4. Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

William Hague

#5. Like a bitch in heat, I seem to attract a coterie of policemen and sanitation officials.

John Kennedy Toole

#6. I separated myself in Prada because I didn't want to have fun. They were all having a lot of fun - Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci - and they were a little coterie of laughs.

Meryl Streep

#7. I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me.

Duncan Sheik

#8. Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Edward Hirsch

#9. Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry has lost the confidence that it speaks to and for the general culture.

Dana Gioia

#10. It mattered little to anyone outside the Transcendental coterie that Bronson Alcott had finally written something publishable - his "Orphic Sayings" - for the opening issue; or that an unemployed schoolteacher named Henry David Thoreau had his first piece published in its pages.

Megan Marshall

#11. Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati
those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

Edward Abbey

#12. I had first visited Kurdistan in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq, camping out in Erbil and Sulaimaniya while waiting for Saddam Hussein's fall.

Lynsey Addario

#13. One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.

Kai Bird

#14. My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.

Blanche Lincoln

#15. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, means we won't be able to see what we are unable to eat

Daniel Lee Edstrom

#16. The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward

Michael Chabon

#17. There is no shame in who I am," he said. "There is only shame in how I came to be, and that is not my burden to carry.

Kathleen Grissom

#18. If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

Mark Twain

#19. Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

Gilles Deleuze

#20. A good king is one who is trusted by his people- and one who deserves that trust.

Brandon Sanderson

#21. The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.

Carlos Castaneda

#22. It is curious how the weak-minded among us are wired like that, the way we turn subdued and silent when confronting real bullies and yet stand up almost aggressively to those who are genuinely kind to us.

Indu Muralidharan

#23. I think 2015 will see a year where Europe outperforms the U.S. massively.

Marc Faber

#24. The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories - stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My passion for ocean conservation stems from learning at a very young age that we're all connected; we're all in this together.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.