"I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times."

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Source : Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

Chris Christie

#Country Quotes #Father Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Remember what I said about the mosquitoes?" "Which part" asked Maggie. "The scary part, the really scary part, the legitimately terrifying part, or the part that makes suicide sound like an awesome way to spend the evening?”
“Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.”
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
“you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you.”

Source : Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”
“Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.”
“I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful.”
“Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?”

Source : Sidney Poitier (2009). “The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography”, p.6, Harper Collins
“So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party”

Source : Stephen Chbosky (2010). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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