"And this is our time-keeper, with a passion…" — Leonard Cohen

"And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion"

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253 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen has 253 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain.…
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about…
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out…
We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in…
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

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Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret. — Mary Kay Ash
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel… — Mary Kay Ash
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
The optimum committee has no members. — Norman Ralph Augustine
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long… — Saint Augustine
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. — Marcus Aurelius
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius
May God protect me from gloomy saints. — Teresa of Avila
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. — Richard Bach
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. — Richard Bach

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