Mason Cooley Way Quotations

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

I change my opinions often, but not my way of thinking.

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.

Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.

Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way.

Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.

The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.

Sometimes the only way to become grounded is to hit bottom.

I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.

Politics inflame the passions in a way that few beloveds can match.

Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.

God may be a human creation, but He goes His way, not ours.

Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.

Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.

My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.

The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.

Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.

No one could be the way I remember my father.