Chris Christie quote: "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."

I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percenta...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

I've always said there is a boulevard that exists between compromising your principles and getti...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother a...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

I was born into a middle class family in New Jersey. My dad came home from serving in the Army after...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration re...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making s...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream....
CHRIS CHRISTIE

The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlemen...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, ...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But s...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my po...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable ...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 tow...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest.
CHRIS CHRISTIE

Let me tell you exactly what we would do on Social Security. Yes, we'd raise the retirement age ...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put st...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

I will make no apologies, ever, for protecting the lives and the safety of the American people. We h...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pe...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

We vetoed five income tax increases during my time as governor. We cut business taxes $2.3 billion, ...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditio...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here.
PERRY CHRISTIE

I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so...
WARREN CHRISTIE

I've played sports and been active my whole life.
WARREN CHRISTIE

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.
PERRY CHRISTIE

I love being tall. as you literally look at life from a different perspective: it's easier to br...
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE

I really believe that being flexible and grateful contributes a lot to your happiness, which contrib...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I really believe that the more informed you are about the benefits of a healthy bite versus the chai...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

All I ever wanted was a big, happy family.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

When you turn 60, the key is to not stop moving. Once you start to stop moving, you rust. You got to...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's t...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

Believe me, I love a good chocolate chip ice cream. I'm not going to go for some lousy version o...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

Life is short. Ricky and I realize how lucky we were. We want to be together all the time.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

When you feel good, you look good. And vice versa: When you look good, you feel good.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I've always believed in a rainbow diet. As many colors and foods as you can eat, the better, bec...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

Smile. It instantly lifts the face, and it just lights up the room.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in ...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I believe in true love, and I believe in happy endings. And I believe.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love wi...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I liberally apply sunscreen and wear hats.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

No matter what your age is, you only have now. So it's always about living in the moment and bei...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

When you feel great, you emanate a certain energy that translates as beautiful. I don't care if ...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I remember my first 'Sports Illustrated' shoot was with the photographer Walter Iooss, and J...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idlenes...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a c...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; bu...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appear...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken
AGATHA CHRISTIE

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blu...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, H...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and o...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I have a feeling this is destiny. On the eve of her third marriage
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, p...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I can...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your a...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about t...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter D...
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE

Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetab...
LINFORD CHRISTIE

Adopting a really positive attitude can work wonders to adding years to your life, a spring to your ...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

My smile has been my ticket to the world. Smiling releases the same feel-good hormones you get joggi...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through li...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.
CHRISTIE HEFNER

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it al...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations...
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE

We need to protect our wilderness areas and national parks. Everywhere you travel, you see blight, d...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my o...
CHRISTIE HEFNER

But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, b...
LINFORD CHRISTIE

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.
CHRISTIE HEFNER

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrappin...
CHRISTIE HEFNER

Very few of us are what we seem.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

These little grey cells. It is up to them.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective stor...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't giv...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves abo...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet i...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, bu...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing,...
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.
CHRISTIE HEFNER

Rory McCann is an amazing actor and a very strong man.
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE

A smile is like an instant facelift and an instant mood lift.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

At Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I'm grateful for friends, family, ...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend an...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was j...
JULIE CHRISTIE

I like coffee in the morning and decaf green tea throughout the day... When I was younger and modeli...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

Love meant hope. Without love, life held no promise.
CHRISTIE CRAIG

While traveling, I love granola bars, trail mix nuts, dry cereal and fruit for on-the-go snacks. I a...
CHRISTIE RAMPONE

I absolutely love to relax and have fun. I like socializing; I like chatting. I like dancing, mixing...
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE

I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I've gotten into the habit of cranking out a set of push-ups before each show to get my blood pu...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I crank up the music, and I dance around the house.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Modelling opened up the world to me. All my friends were bohemian artists and were a little bit appa...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a b...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly fr...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Bart The Bear was fantastic to work with. Absolutely brilliant and so, so good. The things that that...
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE

The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity.
PERRY CHRISTIE

Lunch is a big huge salad with every color in it. From leafy greens to purple to herbs, fresh cut he...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I have my good and bad days, but when it's tough I just push through it.
CHRISTIE RAMPONE

Whenever I wore a bathing suit, I kept a sarong around my hips that went halfway down my thighs. The...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

When I am brushing my teeth, I'm bending my leg behind me, or I'm lifting my leg up and hold...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious ...
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE

It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality. . . . We've only one life to live.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody,
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I've always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn't say I was a fantasy fan, but anything...
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE

That's why they have to raise money on such a massive scale. They're researching for 40 different di...
BRAD CHRISTIE

We suspected something was not quite right.
BRAD CHRISTIE

This form goes through stages when it progresses very dramatically, then it levels off, or a 'platea...
BRAD CHRISTIE

It's a tremendous research effort. The need (for funding) is as important as it has ever been. A lot...
BRAD CHRISTIE

In my downtime, I love eating. It's pretty much my favorite hobby. Discovering new restaurants a...
CHRISTIE LAING

But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prom...
CHRISTIE HEFNER

Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

My biggest deterrent to getting the workout I need is just that my days are so full and so busy.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I never want to let my teammates or coaches down, so I always fight through the days when I am exhau...
CHRISTIE RAMPONE

I photographed all kinds of sports - Formula 1, Formula Atlantic. And anybody who knows me knows tha...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage].
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not p...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever tru...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly fro...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastro...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the sam...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I like life. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a who...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bo...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, bu...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

When a shoot was over, I'd get in a cab, pull out a compact and go, 'WHOA! Who's that ?'
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I can't live without knowing I have my extensions and ponytail. So I can run out the door at the...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.
CHRISTIE HEFNER

Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instinc...
CHRISTIE HEFNER

I think that both Kate and Samantha did well in their individual performances. It was great to see K...
DAVE CHRISTIE

Every morning, I make myself a cappuccino with a drawing in the foam. I post them to Instagram with ...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

Newsstand sales for our flagship magazine rose in the first half of the year despite a very difficul...
CHRISTIE HEFNER

The last six-month period, we were down, ... No question that newsstand sales are soft.
CHRISTIE HEFNER

provide additional advertising sales opportunities as we are able to meet the growing demand of comp...
CHRISTIE HEFNER

Magazines have not been distributing digital subscriptions for very long. The traction for digital m...
CHRISTIE HEFNER

We believe the sale of a minority piece of this business to the public will create the currency need...
CHRISTIE HEFNER

I think we're all cognizant of the fact that there are two macro trends going on here that this prod...
CHRISTIE HEFNER

We see this as a natural extension of the Playboy brand. By launching Playboy digital, we are offeri...
CHRISTIE HEFNER

Magazines have not been distributing digital subscriptions for very long, ... The traction for digit...
CHRISTIE HEFNER

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It&...
JULIE CHRISTIE

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?"

It ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Playboy strategically selected the Forum Shops at Caesars in Las Vegas to debut our first U.S. store...
CHRISTIE HEFNER

I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I now use makeup for a healthy-looking glow because a real one isn't that healthy,
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I see this as the most viable of four possible options. We could do away with the matrix altogether ...
THOMAS CHRISTIE

She tries to live every day as a good person. She tries to atone for what she did almost 33 years ag...
CHRISTIE WEBB

I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Those who engage as middlemen for terrorists, those who are willing to do and say and sell anything ...
CHRISTOPHER CHRISTIE

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.

Chris Christie

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