Gregoire Boonzaier Quotes

Inspired people also have a stronger drive to master their work, but are less competitive. ~ Carolyn Gregoire

Life doesn't have to be a freeform stream of consciousness, where any thought that comes into our heads is entertained. ~ Sheila Wray Gregoire

God, in addition to everything else, also created intelligence and to use it is not a sin. ~ Gregoire De Kalbermatten

It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor. ~ Christine Gregoire

I knew in my bones that while it could do good, the money could also do harm. Greed burns everything on its path. ~ Gregoire Delacourt

Yes I am loved. But I no longer love. ~ Gregoire Delacourt

What is the point of having all this power if you can't force people to do what you want? ~ Ian Gregoire

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before. ~ Christine Gregoire

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers. ~ Christine Gregoire

Olidays far apart from each other, going short of things, hours of cold and solitude? Fears? Does money cut distances short, bring people together? ~ Gregoire Delacourt

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future. ~ Christine Gregoire

We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future. ~ Christine Gregoire

It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future. ~ Christine Gregoire

All of us basically want the same things: opportunity for our children, and prosperity for our families and communities. ~ Christine Gregoire

It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand. ~ Christine Gregoire

Most of us save our best behavior for those whom we barely know and show our worst side to those we know the best. ~ Sheila Wray Gregoire

Sex is not about genitalia. It's about relationship. When God said 'the two shall become one flesh,' he didn't mean it only physically. ~ Sheila Wray Gregoire

Men know the damage a few words can do to girls' hearts, and, idiots that we are, we swoon away and fall into the trap, excited because at last a man has set one for us ~ Gregoire Delacourt

Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq. ~ Christine Gregoire

We have lots of studies about what's wrong with our education system. We need to accept responsibility, be bold, find solutions and move forward to make education a centerpiece of our economic development. ~ Christine Gregoire

When two people love each other sacrificially, they will find happiness. If they aim for happiness instead of aiming to love, they will ultimately fail to achieve either. ~ Sheila Wray Gregoire

We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better. ~ Christine Gregoire

Your purity is not based on what you've done with your body. It's based on what Jesus did with His. ~ Sheila Wray Gregoire

It's only in books that you can change your life. Wipe out everything in a stroke. Do away with the weight of things. Delete the nasty parts, and then at the end of a sentence suddenly find yourself on the far side of the world. ~ Gregoire Delacourt

We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices. ~ Christine Gregoire

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it. ~ Christine Gregoire

Sorrow is allowed, sorrow is advised; all we have to do is let go, all we have to do is love. ~ Gregoire Delacourt

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general. ~ Christine Gregoire

Intimacy is about sharing something with your spouse that you don't share with anybody else. It's letting him in. It's laughing together. And it's also feeling that deep hunger for each other! ~ Sheila Wray Gregoire

Let me assure you that your fear is misplaced. If you must fear anyone, you should fear me. Nothing and no one in this world can protect you from me if you do not tell me what I want to know. ~ Ian Gregoire

One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so. ~ Christine Gregoire

I'd like to have the chance to decide what my life will be like, I think that's the best present anyone can get. The chance to decide what your life will be like. ~ Gregoire Delacourt

We cannot say to one couple that their love is deserving of marriage and to another that their love should only be called a partnership. 'Separate but equal' is never equal. Children of same-sex couples should not grow up wondering why their family is treated differently from other families ~ Christine Gregoire

Commitment matters. And commitment to the marriage doesn't just mean saying, "I'm staying 'til death do us part - even if I have to make everyone miserable in the process." It means saying, "I commit, every day, to make this marriage the best it can be." Commitment is an active, daily decision, not a one-time vow. ~ Sheila Wray Gregoire

I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue. ~ Christine Gregoire

Because our needs are our little daily dreams The little things to be done that project us into tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the future; trivial things that we plan to buy next week, allowing us to think that next week we'll still be alive. ~ Gregoire Delacourt

Yes, I do think that not everything from the past is outmoded. Giving yourself a chance to possess something very good, taking your time, that's important. Yes, I think everything goes by too fast these days. We talk too fast. We think too fast
if we think at all, that is! We send e-mails and texts without reading them through, we lose the elegance of proper spelling, politeness, the sense of things. I've seen children publish pictures of themselves vomiting on Facebook. No, no, i'm not against progress; I'm just afraid it will isolate people even more. ~ Gregoire Delacourt