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If you want to win anything-a race, your self, your life-you have to go a little berserk.
GEORGE SHEEHAN

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.
GEORGE SHEEHAN

There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there ...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Running keeps me at a physical peak and sharpens my senses. It makes me touch and see and hear as if...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely change is due to want power. Wanting the n...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fa...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe y...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.
GEORGE SHEEHAN

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I ...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

I have met my hero, and he is me.
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe y...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Exercise: you don't have time not to
GEORGE SHEEHAN

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
GEORGE SHEEHAN

The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest div...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

I am a lonely figure when I run the roads. People wonder how far I have come, how far I have to go. ...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

If you want to win anything- a race, yourself, your life- you have to go a little berserk
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse
GEORGE SHEEHAN

There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there ...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket
GEORGE SHEEHAN

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely change is due to want power. Wanting the...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to want power. Wanting th...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

The distance runner who accepts the past in the person he is, and sees the future as a promise rathe...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Courage, then, has nothing to do with a single act of bravery. Courage is how one lives, not one spe...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

There were a lot of people in the service,” says Dickey, “who cried when they were discharged be...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

The trouble with this country,” the late John Berryman once told fellow poet James Dickey, “is t...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Writing, someone said, is turning blood into ink.
GEORGE SHEEHAN

The athlete doesn’t stop smoking and start training. He starts training and finds he has stopped s...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Aging is a myth, he argued, and he showed it by posting his personal best at 3:01 in his 61st year.
GEORGE SHEEHAN

courage is the bridge between our minds and our bodies.
GEORGE SHEEHAN

I myself am my only obstacle to perfection,” wrote Kierkegaard.
GEORGE SHEEHAN

At 45, 2 years after the birth of his last child, he started running again.
GEORGE SHEEHAN

With the publication of Running & Being in 1978, George Sheehan’s voice became the voice of a ...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Tomorrow can be the first day of the rest of your life. All you have to do is to follow Thoreau. Inh...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

If you think that life has passed you by, or, even worse, that you are living someone else’s life,...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Becoming an ex-alcoholic, however, is not easy. Drink may be futile and ultimately degrading, but on...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

difficulté d’être.
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Credo quia absurdum,
GEORGE SHEEHAN

I am an intellectual. This does not mean I am intelligent, but that ideas are more important to me t...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

When I was young, I was afflicted with what my aunt called “convenient deafness.” I still am. I ...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Buying food never did make sense to me. When I finally spend some money I prefer to have some perman...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

The runner need not break four minutes in the mile or four hours in the marathon. It is only necessa...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Thomas Merton, another solitary, understood that. The beginning of freedom, he wrote, is not liberat...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

William James, who believed the decisive thing about us was not intelligence, strength, or wealth. �...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

The first half hour of my run is for my body. The last half hour, for my soul. In the beginning the ...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

If you don’t have a challenge, find one,
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Man is meant to be a success.” Each of us, he said, is unique and endowed with potentials unlike t...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

From the moment you become a spectator, everything is downhill. It is a life that ends before the ch...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge i...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasu...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting th...
GEORGE A. SHEEHAN

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and...
GEORGE A. SHEEHAN

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
GEORGE A. SHEEHAN

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.
GEORGE A. SHEEHAN

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe y...
GEORGE A. SHEEHAN

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
GEORGE A. SHEEHAN

We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing in...
CINDY SHEEHAN It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instru...
BILLY SHEEHAN

I think Michael Moore is an amazing man - an amazing, brave man. And I think people are probably goi...
CINDY SHEEHAN These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for...
NEIL SHEEHAN

Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too man...
PATTY SHEEHAN

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our ...
CINDY SHEEHAN

I have lost almost every friend that I had before Casey died.
CINDY SHEEHAN

I loved and protected my own children like a fierce mama bear, but one of them died anyway. It was a...
CINDY SHEEHAN GIRL, write YOUR book dammit.
Who cares what people think?
If writers in the past cared wh...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a wa...
CINDY SHEEHAN

One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.
CINDY SHEEHAN What's lovely about what I do for a living is the vast chasm of variety that constantly just com...
ROBERT SHEEHAN If you see a gaggle of teenagers walking towards you, you tend not to make eye contact, because you ...
ROBERT SHEEHAN You remember all those phrases about how 'these people' - Asians - don't value human lif...
NEIL SHEEHAN I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.
BILLY SHEEHAN

I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons ...
CINDY SHEEHAN

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the Amer...
CINDY SHEEHAN I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments...
BILLY SHEEHAN I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally.
BILLY SHEEHAN History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.
BILLY SHEEHAN As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for ...
BILLY SHEEHAN Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'l...
BILLY SHEEHAN Well, I love living in Los Angeles - the weather is great and I love my home here.
BILLY SHEEHAN And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my par...
BILLY SHEEHAN I've seen it happen when the first rock bands played in the 60s, and they played simple music, and g...
BILLY SHEEHAN We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evol...
BILLY SHEEHAN We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.
NEIL SHEEHAN

The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought t...
CINDY SHEEHAN

I know that they are in heaven, ... and I know that that's why this movement is growing because we h...
CINDY SHEEHAN

I believe Mrs. Clinton is a brilliant woman who has a lot on the ball, but to characterize her as on...
CINDY SHEEHAN This is probably the latest trend in hospital health care. People are looking for hotel-style amenit...
CHRISTOPHER SHEEHAN

Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.
CINDY SHEEHAN [By eating fish] you may be replacing a fatty meal like a bacon cheeseburger with something low in f...
FLORENCE SHEEHAN

I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter ...
CINDY SHEEHAN

The 56,000,000-plus citizens who voted against you and your agenda have given me a mandate to move f...
CINDY SHEEHAN

What they're saying, too, is like, it's OK for Israel to have nuclear weapons. But Iran or Syria bet...
CINDY SHEEHAN

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno...
CINDY SHEEHAN I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could ex...
NEIL SHEEHAN

I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have alwa...
CINDY SHEEHAN

All those reports prove my son died needlessly.
CINDY SHEEHAN

What our children are dying for is to make their government's war machine rich,
CINDY SHEEHAN

I don't understand why, to rise to the level of being president of my country, one has to be a m...
CINDY SHEEHAN

We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy .....
CINDY SHEEHAN

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a countr...
CINDY SHEEHAN One thing is for sure, with a Culver/Judge ticket there will be more of the same and still no clear ...
CULLEN SHEEHAN

Nobody knew what was going to happen, and we made up Camp Casey as we went along, and it grew and gr...
CINDY SHEEHAN

I kind of see their point that this was a grassroots thing that grew into a monster.
CINDY SHEEHAN Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they&#...
BILLY SHEEHAN Sometimes the surface is the safest place to be.
JACQUELINE SHEEHAN Thank goodness there's no violence reported. But the district is adamant: Kids should stay in school...
DAVE SHEEHAN

We've identified the problem and it's not going away. What I think it's going to take now is non-vio...
CINDY SHEEHAN They knew it was on their shoulders when it was like 7-all. I was really proud of Tara and Sarah, th...
JIM SHEEHAN

No Iraqis Left Me on a Roof to Die
CINDY SHEEHAN

That's why they don't talk about an exit strategy. They don't intend on exiting.
CINDY SHEEHAN

8,000 Guardsmen from Mississippi and Louisiana who might have helped, might have been deployed in th...
CINDY SHEEHAN

Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too m...
PATTY SHEEHAN

The election of Nov. 2 was not George Bush's accountability moment. This is George Bush's accountabi...
CINDY SHEEHAN

If he thinks that it's so important for Iraq to have a U.S.-imposed sense of freedom and democracy, ...
CINDY SHEEHAN

We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy .....
CINDY SHEEHAN

I go all over the country, mostly by myself. I'm never alone, but I'm often lonely. When I came here...
CINDY SHEEHAN

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American...
CINDY SHEEHAN It is unusual to pair freshman together. They have been very steady throughout the entire season.
LESLEY SHEEHAN It's no good coming here. We'll watch it on the telly.
ISABEL SHEEHAN What people think of me and my playing is up to them, not me.
BILLY SHEEHAN I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the ba...
BILLY SHEEHAN We work out songs and complicated arrangements and record them relatively quickly. There is very lit...
BILLY SHEEHAN

Nobody knew what was going to happen, and we made up Camp Casey as we went along, and it grew and gr...
CINDY SHEEHAN

We need to bring our troops home immediately, as soon as possible,
CINDY SHEEHAN

We have seen this week the disastrous politics of this nation. We need to bring our troops home now....
CINDY SHEEHAN

It's not patriotism when you say my country, right or wrong,
CINDY SHEEHAN

President Bush says we're safer fighting them there than over here. Why are we safer because 120,000...
CINDY SHEEHAN

I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on t...
CINDY SHEEHAN

The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush,
CINDY SHEEHAN

a good meeting with the president, the end of August, or I get arrested.
CINDY SHEEHAN

We have a lot of respect for the office of the president, and I have a new respect for him because h...
CINDY SHEEHAN

By his own definition, he is a terrorist.
CINDY SHEEHAN

We're over there and we need to come home, ... What happens in Iraq after we leave isn't a worry of ...
CINDY SHEEHAN

So you're the little woman who stopped the Iraq war.
CINDY SHEEHAN

We need to stop the war in Iraq, we need to bring our troops home immediately. We need to see George...
CINDY SHEEHAN

I admire him for his resolve against my government and its meddling.
CINDY SHEEHAN

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno.
CINDY SHEEHAN

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Brit...
CINDY SHEEHAN

All you have to do is look at New Orleans to see how vulnerable he's made our country.
CINDY SHEEHAN

A lot of these people who are there are criminals, and we need to get them out of our house,
CINDY SHEEHAN

We're committed to keep going until our troops are brought home, and after that, to make sure this n...
CINDY SHEEHAN

Every time Bush talks he should be removed from office,
CINDY SHEEHAN

If you fall on the side that is pro-George, and pro-war, you get your ass over to Iraq, and take the...
CINDY SHEEHAN

Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a N...
CINDY SHEEHAN

We'll be the checks and balances on this out-of-control, criminal government.
CINDY SHEEHAN

Why would I want one more mother -- either Iraqi or American -- to go through what I'm going through...
CINDY SHEEHAN

One of the bogus reasons that George Bush gives for this invasion (and) occupation of Iraq is to mak...
CINDY SHEEHAN Gina's opponent played really well. It wasn't really a case of Gina playing any worse; it was just t...
LESLEY SHEEHAN

'Peace Mom' is my most heartfelt, but I am most proud of 'Myth America' because I na...
CINDY SHEEHAN

We were all finally pleased that one of the liars was exposed. But how many more liars do we have to...
CINDY SHEEHAN

You know what I would have said? 'What noble cause did my son die for?'
CINDY SHEEHAN

What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?
CINDY SHEEHAN I love a lot of reggae, but I've never had the opportunity to play with any reggae guys.
BILLY SHEEHAN I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.
BILLY SHEEHAN I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play.
BILLY SHEEHAN If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.
BILLY SHEEHAN The land is going to stay in its natural state in perpetuity.
BILL SHEEHAN Never has Recreation and Parks been able to present anything more than a couple of frustrated parent...
BILL SHEEHAN They've set the bar high and met it in terms of land preservation.
BILL SHEEHAN

To me, every single member since Number One has been tragic and needless and unnecessary, ... My son...
CINDY SHEEHAN Iowa has so many markets, you have to buy time on so many different stations, Everything costs more ...
CULLEN SHEEHAN

I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. Bu...
CINDY SHEEHAN Mark Warner has a history of flip-flopping on taxes. Despite a campaign promise not to raise taxes, ...
CULLEN SHEEHAN

He was very proud to serve for his country and to help the people of Iraq. [It is] very strong in ou...
CINDY SHEEHAN

You get that maniac out here to talk with me in person.
CINDY SHEEHAN They would use that as a remembrance.
KATHY SHEEHAN

greeted with overwhelming support, in blue (Democratic) states and in red (Republican) states.
CINDY SHEEHAN

This... this... 'coyote' is like, just another tool of this wicked administration, ... I mean are we...
CINDY SHEEHAN

That lying bastard, George Bush, is taking a five-week vacation in time of war, ... tells me why my ...
CINDY SHEEHAN

My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I ...
CINDY SHEEHAN There are ways to get noticed and ways to be taken seriously that would be beneficial to Iowans, as ...
CULLEN SHEEHAN In the flophouse where this was built in Leeds, they had commercial grade refrigerators to keep the ...
MICHAEL SHEEHAN

If peace activists really want to make changes, they have to start putting intense pressure on their...
CINDY SHEEHAN

I think this is so urgent and necessary that this is what I have to do.
CINDY SHEEHAN The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greate...
NEIL SHEEHAN

Why don't you put this one on the front page? Cindy is proving herself a nut, but you are suddenly s...
CINDY SHEEHAN Cunningham's assets will be sold along with those seized from drug dealers and others involved in il...
BRITNEY SHEEHAN The only one who can't bid on them is Cunningham or someone acting on his behalf or anyone associate...
BRITNEY SHEEHAN The only people who are restricted from bidding on this are Congressman Cunningham or anyone acting ...
BRITNEY SHEEHAN

People demonize me; people idolize me; everything I say and do has been scrutinized.
CINDY SHEEHAN

She was so shy, ... I walked over to her and said, 'Take the trophy and go around the green. Hold it...
PATTY SHEEHAN Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed lim...
NEIL SHEEHAN We are in the final weeks of the Iowa legislative session and where is the Governor? He's been in Fl...
CULLEN SHEEHAN His biggest obstacle is that he lacks focus. His attention, I think, is in 49 other states.
CULLEN SHEEHAN

Isn't it nice of the IRS to tell the media where to ambush me before they tell me that the U.S. ...
CINDY SHEEHAN World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and milita...
NEIL SHEEHAN

I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.
CINDY SHEEHAN

I'm not a military strategist.
CINDY SHEEHAN It's all about the immigration issue. It's in protest of what they consider to be their complaints w...
DAVE SHEEHAN

If I lived my life according to what Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh said about me, I would just stay...
CINDY SHEEHAN Ali and Easy Street have been phenomenal supporters of my driving, and I'm glad we can put our combi...
GARY SHEEHAN For fuck’s sake, Tegen, stop overthinkin’ every damn thing. Just get on my goddamn dick and star...
MADELINE SHEEHAN Perspective is a bitch when it slaps you in the face, after the fact
MADELINE SHEEHAN You scared of your old lady, Ripper?”…
“Fuck you,” he shot back. “I ain’t scared of...
MADELINE SHEEHAN And sometimes, love is unconventional and it breaks all the rules and blurs all the lines and basks ...
MADELINE SHEEHAN Cox shrugged. "if that's what it takes to get laid, then I'm a fuckinin'poet. Other times I'm a fuck...
MADELINE SHEEHAN You respect women, you little fuckin' shit. It was a fuckin' woman who carried you around in her fuc...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

Anyone with a sense of humor can see that life is a joke, not a tragedy.

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