Chris Shays Quotes
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I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
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To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are providentially broken in His service. We have to be placed into God and brought into agreement with Him before we can be broken bread in His hands. Stay right with God and let Him do as He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children.
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People who know me, recognize a definite difference in my poise and in my personality, because I've grown.
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I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.
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The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.
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All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
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As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.
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Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.
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I have a fairly well known name, so for me to do things my way is not that hard.
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We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
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The way to stop political correctness is to not do it. If someone says, You offended me then you say I don't care! If they're offended by the truth, that's their issue!
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In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as primitive.
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When you read a play, the words speak to you. When you read a script, there's no way you can tell if that's the way that movie will turn out.
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It really is a Northeastern and Midwestern issue.
