C. J. Chivers Quotes

Everywhere I went on my job covering conflict, the Kalashnikov was the predominant arm.

C. J. Chivers

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• I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Happy
  • Take
  • Consequences

• As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Dead
  • Ghost
  • Civil

• They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Believe
  • War
  • Like

• The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Home
  • Ideas
  • Library

• You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • You
  • Without

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Father

• I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Pretty
  • Funny
  • Dad

• I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Thing

• I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Bull
  • Rider

• What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Wind
  • Price

• The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Me

• At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Good
  • Home
  • Change

• If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Religion

• When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • America
  • Problem

• There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Actor

• That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Good
  • Why
  • Door

• I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Remember
  • Short
  • Trees

• With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

  

  Candice Millard
  • People
  • American
  • Parents

• Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Popular
  • Improvement

• The perfect ham and cheese sandwich is all about focusing on quality ingredients and about simple techniques. You start with great bread, a well-cured ham and a sharp local cheese, and the rest is easy. A little butter in a pan and a little patience - in the end you'll have a sandwich that is at once comforting and delicious.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • Great
  • Perfect
  • Simple

• There's still time for greatness.

  

  Andrew Craig
  • Time
  • Greatness

• Usually, I'll just be walking from my house to somewhere else, and melodies and words will start coming up, and I'll have to run home to write it all down.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Up
  • Home
  • House

• Everywhere I went on my job covering conflict, the Kalashnikov was the predominant arm.

  

  C. J. Chivers
  • Job
  • Conflict