Christopher Quotes

Command is often not what you do but the way you do it.

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

I make up different names for my cat all the time - Flapjack, Bowtie, Popcorn. But he's really, "Hey you, cat."

I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.

My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and only regret that this wonderful honour had no money attached to it!

Even in the limo, I buckle my seatbelt. I got that seatbelt on before the car moves.

It's not necessarily how many minutes you're on screen, it's the material you have. It's more important what it is you have to do than the amount of time you're there.

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us.

True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.

It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests.

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.

I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.

We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.

I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.

I've been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me!

It's important to me to say what I really mean.

Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question.

Leaving GH was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

They may fight with us, but they don't fight for us.

On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.

I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm

Nature was my kindergarten.

One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay.

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like.

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.

We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

The church was made for mission-God's mission

What if there were no hypothetical situations?

Ladies, if you're at the mall and you think your man is looking at other girls just remember: If your man is at the mall with you... he... loves you.

I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading.

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.