We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose."
"Is that a lie?"
"It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.


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T. S. KALYANARAMAN
I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.
S. TRUETT CATHY
We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
S. TRUETT CATHY
I cook chicken for a living.
S. TRUETT CATHY
I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our var...
S. TRUETT CATHY
If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of...
S. TRUETT CATHY
I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven...
S. TRUETT CATHY
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brou...
S. TRUETT CATHY
I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local communit...
S. TRUETT CATHY
I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
S. TRUETT CATHY
Why would I retire from something I enjoy doing? I can hardly wait to get here.
S. TRUETT CATHY
If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.
S. TRUETT CATHY
I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize yo...
S. TRUETT CATHY
I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can...
S. TRUETT CATHY
It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, ...
S. TRUETT CATHY
I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and prioriti...
S. TRUETT CATHY
The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and ...
S. TRUETT CATHY
Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.
S. TRUETT CATHY
I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
S. TRUETT CATHY
You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on...
S. TRUETT CATHY
Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.
S. TRUETT CATHY
Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things...
S. TRUETT CATHY
In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
S. TRUETT CATHY
We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, ...
S. TRUETT CATHY
Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our ti...
S. TRUETT CATHY
Chick-fil-A is what it is today because of its people, purpose and product.
S. TRUETT CATHY
I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
S. T. JOSHI
You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
S. T. JOSHI
My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
S. T. JOSHI
I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and ...
S. ROBSON WALTON
I was small but slow as a college tackle.
S. ROBSON WALTON
I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs -...
S. ROBSON WALTON
I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep ...
S. ROBSON WALTON
In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the w...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically e...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to ol...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than oth...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that pe...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related d...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age y...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the ...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our p...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures f...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people un...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it does...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful th...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the grea...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.
S. JAY OLSHANSKY
I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody e...
S. J. ROZAN
The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest...
S. J. ROZAN
Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been exp...
S. J. ROZAN
I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in,...
S. J. ROZAN
One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails...
S. J. ROZAN
The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People...
S. J. ROZAN
The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent...
S. J. ROZAN
Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
S. J. ROZAN
When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as...
S. J. ROZAN