"A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles……" — Garrison Keillor
"A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'."
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157 Quotes by Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor has 157 quotes on this site.
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No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.
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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.
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Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.
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Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out…
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Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the…
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Some people think it is difficult to be a Christian and to laugh, but I think it's the other way…
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I don't want them to be told to remember me.
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I thought A Prairie Home Companion would be an interesting thing to do for a summer or so. Public radio…
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That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the…
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You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so…
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She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city…
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Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They…
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which…
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
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I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
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Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned…
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If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?
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The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization…
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