Jeb Hensarling Quotes

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

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• You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Part
  • Leo

• You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Inspiration
  • Suggestions

• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Future
  • Down
  • Plan

• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Women
  • Fun

• The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Work
  • School

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Love
  • City
  • Architecture

• Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • World
  • Think

• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • People
  • Fortune
  • Quit

• Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

  

  Jack Kroll
  • People
  • Joy
  • Artist

• I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Art
  • Want
  • You

• In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Work
  • Interesting

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Process

• Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Life
  • Career
  • Words

• What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Lasts
  • Analysis

• My wife was born and raised in Italy until she was about 9, and then she came to America, and her mom was a great cook, and they have great recipes, and whenever her mom would come into town, we would have all these friends just randomly showing up at our house, and eventually we figured out why. They wanted Mama's cooking.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Up
  • Great
  • Why

• Lesli Glatter directed an episode of 'Mad Men' and then came in to direct an episode of 'House.' And she didn't recognize me at all.

  

  Anne Dudek
  • Men
  • She
  • House

• I supported and voted for the public option in the version of the Affordable Care Act passed by the U.S. House. Had it been incorporated into the final version of the ACA, it would have done much to increase the competitiveness of ACA Exchange Marketplaces.

  

  Bill Foster
  • Done
  • House
  • Option

• When I was in Iraq and Afghanistan, I never once turned to someone before a raid on a house and said, 'Hey, man, are you a Democrat or a Republican?'

  

  Eric Greitens
  • House
  • Democrat
  • Afganistan

• I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

  

  Jeb Hensarling
  • House