Shays Quotes & Sayings

Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when
really bad things were just about to happen. — Joe Meno

He was, albeit only briefly, the hero of the world's hopes. — David Cannadine

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death. — Christopher Shays

First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot. — Christopher Shays

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that. — Christopher Shays

No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the world the way you see it. No one else can feel your life the way you feel it. Thus it is impossible to ever compare two people because each stands on such different ground. When you compare yourself to others, you are inviting envy into your consciousness; it can be a dangerous and destructive guest. — John O'Donohue

We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill. — Christopher Shays

There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers. — Christopher Shays

I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick. — Christopher Shays

Sin dies in us when we stay alive in Jesus Christ. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Things that matter in this life can not be bought. Friends, truth, and a passion for life. — Chris Shays

I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in. — Christopher Shays

Cruise passengers can be blinded to the very real perils of the sea by ship operators unwilling to interrupt the party for security warnings. And after an incident occurs, a thorough investigation can be profoundly difficult when the crime scene literally floats away, on schedule, to its next port of call. — Chris Shays

Want is small and will make you small. Want is needy and will make you needy. — Bryant McGill

But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war. — Christopher Shays

Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step. — Mark Helprin

What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I. — Christopher Shays

I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health. — Christopher Shays

The bottom line to this is, there are few doctors who have any expertise in chemical exposure. — Christopher Shays

Right thinking is your best light in this dark universe; it is your best hope in your worst hopelessness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think it's time we recognized the Dark Ages are over. Galileo and Copernicus have been proven right. The world is in fact round; the Earth does revolve around the sun. I believe God gave us intellect to differentiate between imprisoning dogma and sound ethical science, which is what we must do here today. — Chris Shays

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. — Christopher Shays

I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness. — Christopher Shays

Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it. — Christopher Shays

Mechanic slaves
With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall
Uplift us to the view. — William Shakespeare

Education itself is Marketing
marketing tools and perspectives to people who don't necessarily realize why they need them, how it will serve them, what they might accomplish with them. And, ensuingly, Marketing itself is Education (with no attempt to assess the value of what is being marketed). — Shellen Lubin

Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that. — Christopher Shays

I don't worry about losing my looks. It's finding them on someone else that worries me. — Simon Munnery

I also think that there is a huge failure in the American education system to educate Americans about where we, our system, our government, came from. And to some extent this failure is shared in places like Britain and Canada and Australia. — Michael Scheuer

Our counterterrorism tools do not exist in a vacuum. They are stronger and more sustainable when the American people understand and support them. They are weaker and less sustainable when the American people do not. — John O. Brennan

Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents. — Christopher Shays

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people ... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie ... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us. — Jim Hightower