Top 10 Coucy Quotes

#1. Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality. I might have a Scotch to keep me going, but I like to be as awake and as alert as possible.

Elliot Perlman

Coucy Quotes #38509
#2. All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.

Penelope Lively

Coucy Quotes #309518
#3. The fief of Coucy from the Church; it was now held directly of the King, and its seigneur paid homage only to the King's person.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Coucy Quotes #617193
#4. There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

Khaled Hosseini

Coucy Quotes #633975
#5. If above all things we would taste God, and feel eternal life in ourselves, we must go forth into God with our feeling, above reason; and there we must abide, onefold, empty of ourselves, and free from images, lifted up by love into the simple bareness of our intelligence.

John Of Ruysbroeck

Coucy Quotes #686130
#6. At Coucy's level, men and women hawked and hunted and carried a favorite falcon, hooded, on the wrist wherever they went, indoors or out - to church, to the assizes, to meals. On occasion, huge pastries were served from which live birds were released to be caught by hawks unleashed in the banquet

Barbara W. Tuchman

Coucy Quotes #781630
#7. In addition to grand estate, Coucy clearly possessed a personal power of attraction and a faculty for not making enemies.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Coucy Quotes #1016566
#8. We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

Antonia Fraser

Coucy Quotes #1633748
#9. There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.

Jerome K. Jerome

Coucy Quotes #1789649
#10. To have distinctiveness is to believe in the distinctiveness of everyone else, because distinctiveness is not mine but is God's gift by which he gives being to me, and he indeed gives to all, gives being to all. (p. 271)

Soren Kierkegaard

Coucy Quotes #1870421

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