Jim Sasser Quotes
One congressman asked 'I just want to know if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior. The minister looked stunned, and he said 'no.' The whole table almost fell on the floor. The congressman was quite serious. That was his litmus test.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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I think everybody goes through things in their life where they're like, 'This does not make any sense,' or 'I don't understand why this is happening,' but that's part of the journey of faith.
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I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
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I'm always late.
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Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.
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Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the focus of your life, you miss the point of living. You've really got to get the grounding of family and the things that are important in your life and make that your focus.
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To see a candle’s light, one must take it into a dark place.
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We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better
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We are here to see and contemplate the great spectacle.
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We’d all like t’vote fer th’best man, but he’s never a candidate.
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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
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There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.
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I wasn't an overbearing child. But I was aggressive. I always managed to get what I wanted somehow.
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The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.
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I like the triangle. My first season, the whole first season, we played nothing but the triangle, so I know it pretty well.
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Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team.
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Collective wisdom depends on conversation and is most powerfully felt in the silences that arise within those conversations.
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I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.
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When Satan attacks you, command him in the Name of Jesus to bend his neck. On the back of it you'll find there's a nail scarred foot print!
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I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.
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One congressman asked 'I just want to know if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior. The minister looked stunned, and he said 'no.' The whole table almost fell on the floor. The congressman was quite serious. That was his litmus test.
