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LIONEL SHRIVER ...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have...
LIONEL SHRIVER At work, you're replaceable... but as a parent, you're irreplaceable.
MARIA SHRIVER Still, I may have been glad to scratch the dry surface of our day-to-day peaceableness the way Viole...
LIONEL SHRIVER Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
SARGENT SHRIVER Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world over...
SARGENT SHRIVER I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt wi...
LIONEL SHRIVER Why would you want to sell millions of people on the illusion that they knew you, when they didn't?
LIONEL SHRIVER Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in kil...
SARGENT SHRIVER I lost myself in the process and I realized how much I had identified myself with Maria Shriver, new...
MARIA SHRIVER You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of...
LIONEL SHRIVER I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.
MARIA SHRIVER We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off.
MARIA SHRIVER to keep on doing the work and not worry what other people have to say.
MARIA SHRIVER I thought a lot about what I could say here today. I also thought a lot about what I couldn't or sho...
MARIA SHRIVER All right. This is what I should do. I should support what you're doing.
MARIA SHRIVER We should check where we are next year. I hope everyone is in this for the long haul.
MARIA SHRIVER If kids are going to be on campus six hours a day, let's be responsible about what we give them.
MARIA SHRIVER I think that public service is tough on a family -- no ifs, ands, buts about it. And I have my own p...
MARIA SHRIVER I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.
MARIA SHRIVER One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at wri...
MARIA SHRIVER O Lord to You we give thanks
that in time Polish horses ... defeat Nazi tanks.
SAIOM SHRIVER The ice does not in pain scream
when in the sun he melts into stream
nor does he in pain scream
when...
SAIOM SHRIVER Do you want to be
with your love by the sea
hearing the gullsong
smelling the salt air
feeling the s...
SAIOM SHRIVER Jesus' Fig Tree
He did belittle you..
but soon he'll bebig you..
and in the spring
with blooms he...
SAIOM SHRIVER How many have been frozen gored starved or blown apart
by Hitler, LBJ, Genghis Khan, Churchill, or ...
SAIOM SHRIVER Does he say novenas
for those with no venus
(to Dan Brown).
SAIOM SHRIVER My love for you
a yearling became
many eons ago
Saiom Shriver.
SAIOM SHRIVER HEART PERFUME
A rose fullblown
is the opentoall heart
.. fragrance flows from it
.. the perfume of l...
SAIOM SHRIVER Don't think of him as a Republican, think of him as the man I love; and if that doesn't work, think ...
MARIA SHRIVER We sought out iconic companies who make iconic products.
BOBBY SHRIVER But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.
LIONEL SHRIVER It's always inspiring to me to meet people who feel that they can make a difference in the world...
MARIA SHRIVER He looks uncomfortable, and in this respect the garb is apt. Kevin is uncomfortable; the tiny clothi...
LIONEL SHRIVER Are you chuckling yet? Because then along came you. A big, broad meat eater with brash blond hair an...
LIONEL SHRIVER Beware of what "everybody says".
LIONEL SHRIVER Discomfort begets discomfort in others.
LIONEL SHRIVER Sure...the boy was precocious. But having been precocious himself, Lowell was never wowed by teenage...
LIONEL SHRIVER His weight makes him a social pariah. It reduces the likelihood he’ll remarry. It has grave implic...
LIONEL SHRIVER