Christopher Quotes
The land wants you here. I want you here," you called. "Don't you care about that at all?
I thought you wanted to catch a camel," you tried again. "No." "I want to." "Well, you go then." You laughed. "I want your beautiful face where I can see it
I remember that feeling of skin. It's strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers still tingle with it.
Doesn't that hurt?" I said. "Yep." "How do you keep them in there?" "I'm stubborn." You grinned. "Stubborn as a waddywood. And anyway, pain means it's healing." "Not always.
This be OK?' I asked, innocently. 'You want me to have no skin left?' You rolled your eyes. Actually, don't answer that one.
One day they'll let you out of that dry, empty cell. You'll return to the Separates, and you'll feel the rain once more. And you'll grow straight, this time, toward this sunlight. I know you will.
But without humans, the wild would take over. It would only take a hundred years or so for nature to win again.
The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven.
Being on daytime TV has its benefits. You can still have a life and you know you have a check coming every week.
It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.
My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.
It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.
Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.
A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.
If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Night, I have discovered, has a faintly bitter taste, caused by its large ingredient of Un-attained Possibility.
There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.
They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.
A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Yawk N'Yawk.'
Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.
If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.
If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.