Sargent Shriver Quotes

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.

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• It is we who infuse life with meaning through our actions and the stories we create with them.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • Life

• What you feel is important may not be what the director feels is important.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Important
  • May

• Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

  

  John Wayne
  • Work
  • Long

• you will I trust find heaviness may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

  

  Rachel
  • May
  • Night
  • Joy

• Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Government
  • Stealing

• He says from Him, as Augustine says in the book On the Trinity, on account of the Father; he says through Him on account of the Son; in Him on account of the Holy Spirit. But by this, that he does not say from Them, through Them and in Them, nor does he say to Them (be) the glory, but to Him, he hints, that this Trinity is the One Lord God.

  

  Peter Lombard
  • Book
  • Lord
  • Holy

• The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Laughter
  • Laughing
  • Scorn

• Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the law unto my will.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Law

• Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Good
  • Football
  • Loved

• I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Simple
  • Blame
  • Last

• His father thought he had a wond'rous wise look when he was born, and so he named him Solomon, thinking that if indeed he turned out to be wise the name would fit him nicely, whereas, should he be mistaken, and the boy grow up stupid, his name could be easily changed to Simon.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Father

• The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Eyes
  • Vision

• I try to stay away from carbs, but it can get cold in Chicago, and some sort of fettuccine Bolognese is right up my alley. That's why I try to get to the gym as much as possible!

  

  Jesse Lee Soffer
  • Up
  • Why
  • Cold

• I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Hard
  • Naive

• I love Wisconsin, but it made my life better (when he went to Cup racing). I had done about everything in short tracks that you can do. It was a new challenge for me to come down here and it gave me a new look on life. It was a different battlefield that gave me a new lease on life.

  

  Dick Trickle
  • Life
  • Different
  • Done

• The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Comedy
  • Water
  • Tree

• In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.

  

  J. D. Greear
  • Age
  • Christian
  • Apologetic

• [I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Dangerous
  • Bride
  • Apologetic

• Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972.

  

  Rick Perlstein
  • Village
  • Corps
  • Landslide

• The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.

  

  Sargent Shriver
  • Apologetic
  • Corps