James Comey Quotes

The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.

James Comey

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• Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Day
  • Moment
  • Next

• Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Architecture
  • Very
  • Tough

• Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Money
  • Strong

• Manners are love in a cool climate.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Love
  • Cool
  • Manners

• A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Great
  • Real
  • Understanding

• Unmoved though Witlings sneer and Rivals rail, Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. He scorns the meek address, the suppliant strain. With merit needless, and without it vain. In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust: Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Trust

• The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart is once turned into a conformity with the mind of God. when we feel our will conformed to His will, we shall then presently perceive a spirit of adoption within ourselves, teaching us to say, 'Abba, Father.'

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• For all the dreams we've dreamed And all the songs we've sung And all the hopes we've held And all the flags we've hung, The millions who have nothing for our pay - Except the dream that's almost dead today.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Today
  • Dream

• They weave a slow andante as in sleep,Scaled yellow, swampy black, plague-spotted white;With blue and lidless eyes at watch they keepA treachery of silence; infinite.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Black
  • Eyes
  • Sleep

• There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

  

  Eric Braeden

• Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • Life

• I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever get a phone call saying 'Would you like to work with Al Pacino?' I would go crazy.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Work
  • God
  • Believe

• It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• To do a train wreck and make it look real on screen is tremendously skilful.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Real

• It wasn't until I came to New York and started to see the African American community, but also the Ethiopian community here, and started to eat the food, started to understand the music. I said, you know, I got to go and understand the culture. So me and my sister went.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Music
  • American
  • Culture

• From 2002-2008, Planned Parenthood received $342 million in federal taxpayer money through Title X funding alone. With these funds, Planned Parenthood has provided women throughout the U.S. with important family planning and contraceptive services as well as screening for breast and cervical cancers for low-income women.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Important
  • Women
  • Family

• You change your life by changing your heart.

  

  Max Lucado
  • Life
  • Heart

• Winning is definitely contagious.

  

  Billy Butler
  • Winning

• I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Work
  • Accountability

• If I could give one tip for people - it's not an exercise or nutrition regimen. It's to walk your talk and believe in yourself, because at the end of the day, the dumbbell and diet don't get you in shape. It's your accountability to your word.

  

  Brett Hoebel
  • People
  • Believe
  • Exercise

• A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. ... Public records are one portal through which the people observe their government, ensuring its accountability, integrity, and equity while minimizing sovereign mischief and malfeasance

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • People
  • Integrity
  • Democratic

• Expenditures have gone rampant in Puerto Rico: lack of accountability - total lack of accountability.

  

  Ricardo Rossello
  • Accountability
  • Expenditures
  • Rampant

• The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.

  

  James Comey
  • Accountability