Chris Kyle Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
-
Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
-
The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
-
I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
-
I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.
-
I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
-
The general market wants what I do.
-
Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.
-
Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.
-
I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
-
Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.
-
I didn't say that. I don't know who told him that.
-
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
-
In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.
-
When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.
-
Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
-
Heal me, oh Lord, I will be healed. Save me, oh Lord, I will be saved. Bless me, oh Lord, I will be blessed. Free me, oh Lord, I will be free
-
I told my doctor I got water on my knee, he gave me a sponge and raised his fee!
-
Being frightened is not the same as being a coward. Maybe he was as brave as anyone else there, because he went to catch a dragon despite knowing what dragons are like.
-
The Open Market Committee, as presently established, is plainly not in the public interest. This committee must be operated by purely public servants, representatives of the people as a whole and not any single interest group. The Open Market Committee should be abolished, and its powers transferred to the Federal Reserve Board - the present public members of the committee, with reasonably short terms of office.
-
Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.
-
It is our duty to serve those who serve us.
