Jeff Sessions Quotes

We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis.

Jeff Sessions

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• Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

  

  Edmund Waller
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• Acting was something I had to do.

  

  Nancy Marchand
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  • Something
  • Had

• I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.

  

  Lake Bell
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• We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Night
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  • Top

• I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Up
  • American
  • History

• I've always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn't just about doing cardio, it's also when I can get my 'me time' to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Alone

• I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Box

• The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Sun

• Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Grandchildren

• You have a person there in Senator McCain that has an integrity in him and will stand up for the political process.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • Up
  • Political
  • Integrity

• I always thought that I would work behind the camera, because it's a more comfortable place for me to be, really.

  

  Alexis Bledel
  • Work

• Together we are building a new Mexico.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Together

• I'm quite confident, but I don't fancy myself. I don't really care about how I look.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe

• I said we are in a mental recession. We keep getting the steady drumbeat of bad news... it's become a mental recession. We don't have measured negative growth. That's a fact, that's not a commentary.

  

  Phil Gramm
  • Bad
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• I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Truth

• Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

  

  Martha Graham
  • Faith
  • Desire
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• How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women?

  

  Jeannette Rankin
  • People
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• I would never send my kids to a single-sex school.

  

  Alexandra Wentworth
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• If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Temptation

• There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Nature
  • Wish
  • Understanding

• ...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Evil
  • Surprise
  • Temptation

• I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.

  

  Martin Compston
  • Work
  • Great

• The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Night
  • Earth

• We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • Temptation