It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.


Sargent Shriver

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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
Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.
LIONEL SHRIVER
That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
LIONEL SHRIVER
People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
LIONEL SHRIVER
Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also ...
MARIA SHRIVER
Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. Whi...
LIONEL SHRIVER
You don't wanna walk around and say, 'I'm somebody's niece, I'm somebody's c...
MARIA SHRIVER
My own apathy is bone chilling.
LIONEL SHRIVER
It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.
LIONEL SHRIVER
I came to regard my body in a new light. For the first time I apprehended the little mounds on my ch...
LIONEL SHRIVER
It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away...
LIONEL SHRIVER
Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are n...
LIONEL SHRIVER
Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison.
"Yes, we're all alike," I said....
LIONEL SHRIVER
In Kevin's book, unwitnessed disobedience is wasteful.
LIONEL SHRIVER
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero,...
LIONEL SHRIVER
He's at home recovering and is doing great.
EVELYN SHRIVER
I think I had been something of a nuisance. They thought if I had my hands full, I wouldn't bother t...
EVELYN SHRIVER
He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing.
LIONEL SHRIVER
He wasn't mad, he was sad.
LIONEL SHRIVER
Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we ag...
LIONEL SHRIVER
The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive...
LIONEL SHRIVER
We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved o...
LIONEL SHRIVER
I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself in its tot...
LIONEL SHRIVER
Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just ...
LIONEL SHRIVER
A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unles...
JOHN SINGER SARGENT
I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all...
JOHN SINGER SARGENT
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressi...
JOHN SINGER SARGENT
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT
I do not judge, I only chronicle.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT