Caroline Paul quotes

“In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.”
-- Caroline Paul

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“You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.”
-- Caroline Paul

Source : Caroline Paul (2013). “Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology”, p.158, A&C Black

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“Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?”
-- Caroline Paul

Source : Caroline Paul (2013). “Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology”, p.140, A&C Black

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“Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless behind garden gnomes, glide along fence tops, and slink under benches.”
-- Caroline Paul

Source : Caroline Paul (2013). “Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology”, p.31, A&C Black

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“Most people go to the office and sit at a desk. When firefighters go to the office, we might birth a baby in the morning, save a drowning surfer in the afternoon, and run into a fire at night. What could be more interesting than that?”
-- Caroline Paul

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“Its hard in the firehouse to avoid the dessert thing. At 3 in the morning after some emergency, I have been known to eat an ice cream sandwich.”
-- Caroline Paul

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“Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.”
-- Caroline Paul

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“In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.”
-- Caroline Paul

Source : "Learning to Take the Heat / Author Caroline Paul faced blazes and prejudice as an S.F. firefighter" by Sylvia Rubin, www.sfgate.com. June 1, 1998.

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“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”

“We make war that we may live in peace.”

“War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.”

“It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect, and of course mattress sales and tire discounts.”

“People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'”

“As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.”

“Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.”

Source : "40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering". Book by Alice Waters, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

“When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.”

“One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.”