Lawford's Quotes

#1. Christopher Kennedy Lawford's new book Recover to Live will be a force with the power to educate as well as motivate transformational personal change. Recover to Live may alter the way broader society looks at the disease of addiction and those who are suffering from it.

Drew Pinsky

#2. A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

Josephine Baker

#3. Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.

Samuel Johnson

#4. Despite everything, I have few regrets. I have crammed a lot of living into my time.

Peter Lawford

#5. Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.

Douglas Brinkley

#6. It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#7. Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool.

Peter Lawford

#8. I paid him," Lawford said indignantly.
"If you want a job done properly," Sharpe said, "you do it yourself. Hell!

Bernard Cornwell

#9. Compassion is the most powerful tool you can have when it comes to healing addictions of any kind. Put simply, what your partner needs most from you is compassion.

Christopher Kennedy Lawford

#10. Lawford shrugged. "She jilted you."
"Easy come, easy go," Sharpe said, then belted the tunic.

Bernard Cornwell

#11. The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

Horace Greeley

#12. Life itself is a disease and we're all going to die eventually. How we live our life really determines what the quality of our life is. If we can make life more worth living, we will reduce the problems of addictive behavior.

Christopher Kennedy Lawford

#13. There's only a couple hundred of us here in the Square. Pretty much everybody has a sweet pad, except Brainbox, who lives in the library. I mean literally lives in the Bobst Library. I

Chris Weitz

#14. I discovered that the world frightens you with your shortcomings, but if you do not worry about it, you are liberated.

Anupam Kher

#15. Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty

Derren Brown

#16. The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#17. Let them enjoy their Eden while they can; though there's plenty of apples, I fear, on the tree yet, Mr Lawford.

Walter De La Mare

#18. ...there's goodness and purpose and reason out there. Believe it, embrace it, trust it. Life will always be hard, but if we do our best, if we persist, we can make a difference---and good will win out over evil, love will conquer hate...

Camron Wright

#19. It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs.

Frank Grillo

#20. What use are memories when memories can do little more than fade?

Anthony Doerr

#21. It takes only one child to raze a village.

Florence King

#22. I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

Peter Lawford