C. J. Cherryh Quotes
She was a student of history, valued the lessons of it. The worst atrocities began with half-measures, with apologies, compromising with the wrong side, shrinking from what had to be done.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.
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What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself the climactic event and fact of cosmic history. From then on everything is differentthe End came forward into the present in Jesus the Messiah
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Perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it. A person without a practical end in view becomes a crank or an idiot. Such persons fill our asylums.
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We have places in London and other places that are so radicalised that the police are afraid for their own lives. We have to be very smart and very vigilant.
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She was a student of history, valued the lessons of it. The worst atrocities began with half-measures, with apologies, compromising with the wrong side, shrinking from what had to be done.
