Harry Chapin Quotes

Short stories that's all it's ever been Don't you worry about the ending Babe, before we begin I have seen the sun That's behind the rain I have felt the joy That's behind the pain.

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• There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Peace

• In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Baseball
  • Creative
  • Data

• Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.

  

  Rand Paul
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Choices

• Who would expect it so? From darkness light is brought, Life rises out of Death, And Something comes from Naught.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Life
  • Death
  • Light

• The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.

  

  Margaret Drabble
  • Mind
  • Reality

• As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Men
  • Long
  • Children

• Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Music
  • Attention

• I felt that if I shared the lessons that I learned - both the good ones and the bad ones - that I might make the climb a little less painful for other women.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Good
  • Women
  • Bad

• I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I believe that the FCC and Tribal Nations share the same goal-ensuring high-speed Internet access to anyone who wants it, while respecting and preserving sites with historic, religious, and cultural significance to Tribes.

  

  Ajit Pai
  • Believe
  • High
  • Religious

• Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children.

  

  John Pople
  • Children
  • Support
  • Wife

• I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used to hang around. His mama would bring him around. He was just a natural.

  

  Mel Tillis
  • Remember
  • Baby

• While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.

  

  Liya Kebede
  • Husband
  • Option

• An American Government cannot permit Americans to starve.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • American

• You think I wuh-wuh-wuh-want to stay in here? You think I wouldn't like a con-con-vertible and a guh-guh-girl friend? But did you ever have people l-l-laughing at you? No, because you're so b-big and so tough! Well, I'm not big and tough.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • People
  • Girl
  • Friend

• The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared manageable. The same goes for the criticism of those doctrines, though as a voice from the past, this criticism proved prophetic.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Political
  • Past
  • Criticism

• The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Hope
  • Pain
  • Sometimes

• The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Environment
  • Artist
  • Pleasure

• The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises., sun, moon, and planets, glorify Him in your ineffable language! Praise Him, celestial harmonies, and all ye who can comprehend them! And thou, my soul, praise thy Creator! It is by Him and in Him that all exist.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Wisdom

• Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right distance from the sun: a little farther, and the death of the perpetual Antarctic winter - or worse - would prevail; a little closer, and the surface would truly fry anything that touched it.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Life
  • Father
  • Death

• Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Stories
  • Luck
  • Vomiting

• Short stories that's all it's ever been Don't you worry about the ending Babe, before we begin I have seen the sun That's behind the rain I have felt the joy That's behind the pain.

  

  Harry Chapin
  • Sun
  • Stories
  • Babe