Charlie Cook famous quotes

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Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.
-- Charlie Cook

#Sight #Sea #Forever
Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.
-- Charlie Cook

#Nature #Roots #Where You Live
Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.
-- Charlie Cook

#Nature #Support #World
The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it, or considering other species to be our close "relations" which many indigenous peoples still do, couldn't be more alien to most of us.
-- Charlie Cook

#Nature #Ideas #Giving
Not a day goes by that I don't click on RealClearPolitics at least once, the presidential poll charts, graphs and moving averages are great. If RCP didn't already exist, somebody would have to invent it.
-- Charlie Cook

#Moving #Average #Presidential
The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base.
-- Charlie Cook

#Talking #Risk #Agitation
And what exactly is nature walking? It's any and every kind of walking you can do in the natural world. The activity encompasses strolling, striding, sauntering, stepping, treading, tramping, traipsing, traversing, rambling, roving, roaming, racewalking, hiking, meandering, wandering, wending, pacing, peregrinating, perambulating ... in natural surroundings.
-- Charlie Cook

#Exactly Is #Hiking #World
Walking is simple and second nature for most of us. It's an everyday kind of activity, not something that's frequently the rage of fashion or touted for its sex appeal. Yet few physical pursuits in this life are ultimately as rewarding. It's a wonderfully satisfying way to spend an hour, and afternoon, a day, or longer.
-- Charlie Cook

#Fashion #Sex #Simple
The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent shrapnel flying in every direction. I don't know what these guys think they're doing, but it looks like they're committing political suicide.
-- Charlie Cook

#Suicide #Thinking #Guy

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
I never set my sights low. I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves. I was never afraid to take that step, to see what I was capable of doing. Does luck play a role in success, particularly in a creative field? Sure it does. But if you don't have the balls to give it a shot, you're destined to fail.
Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
Is she forever for you then? She's worth throwing it all away?" "She's it. No one else. She's all I'm ever going to want.
It didn't mean forever but for right now I wanted Rush to be my first. He wouldn't be my last. A stop I might never forget or get over. That was what scared me the most. Not being able to move on.
His time's forever, everywhere his place.
You and I are just like a blade of grass sitting here; we are going to wither and die. "But the word of the Lord endures forever"

Charlie Cook famous quotes

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