Jo Coudert
Jo Coudert
Jo Coudert quotes about
people cooking found
cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook.
cooking ruins burning
It is possible to ruin a chicken in the cooking of it, but not easily. Short of burning it or letting it get dried out, you can hardly go wrong.
human-nature quirks treats
It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.
white people cooking
Almost anything can be stretched to serve more people by being added to a white sauce or canned gravy or undiluted or very slightly diluted canned soup and served over noodles or rice. With chops or chocolate eclairs, however, the only solution is to claim you don't like them.
circles people trying
The people trying to change others can conveniently be termed the angry, while the people trying to change themselves might be called the guilty, although it would be just as descriptive to speak of the controlling and the dependent, or the paranoid and the repressive, or, inelegantly, the screamers and the criers. In some circles, attaching labels to people rates only a little higher than chicken stealing, because ... a label immediately ends attempts to understand the individual.
path habit used
The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.
self-esteem being-single people
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.
running fashion love-is
Examining love is like examining a stocking: if you hold it up to the light and stretch it to search for snags, any snags there are may well run and ruin the stocking. In fact, if I may fashion Coudert's law from Heisenberg's principle of indeterminacy, it is this: Love is not only changed by observation; it is changed for the worse.
struggle responsibility winning
We can win the struggle to avoid responsibility for our personal lives, but if we do, what we lose is our lives.
respect believe oil
It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.
people
People who are good to each other make each other good.
long world might
The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for what we are. We long to be understood for what we might have been had all been for the best in the best of all possible worlds and, at the same time, to be forgiven for what we are.
mind detectives world
Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.
past feelings age
At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly that you must marry.