Jeh Johnson Quotes

The arc of the American story is long, it is bumpy and uncertain, but it always bends toward a more perfect union.

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• The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

  

  Carl Levin
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Long
  • History
  • Romantic

• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Long
  • Run
  • Spoon

• When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Long
  • Want
  • Hips

• So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Learning
  • Literature

• Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!

  

  Larry Niven
  • Long
  • Know
  • Doing

• My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Great
  • American
  • Revolution

• Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Long
  • Two
  • Half

• It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Long
  • Eyes

• May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • May
  • Perfect

• I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1982. I've had a front row view of the vital role private equity continues to play in building and keeping American businesses competitive in the global economy.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • American
  • Economy
  • Building

• Miz and I have known each other for a long time, and we really know, like, how to get at each other's nerves.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Know

• Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Me
  • Care
  • Congress

• When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like finding buried treasure. I tried the rouge, the eye shadow, the lipstick. But I couldn't get the rouge off. Mummy spanked me terribly.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Eye
  • Makeup
  • Shadow

• I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Long
  • Kind

• We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Europe
  • Too

• I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at the Berlin Film Festival. A lot of American studios, agents, and people like that saw it there and liked it.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Science

• I think 'Heroes of Cosplay' will show a lot of the positive things, like how much effort it takes to make a costume. These people on the show aren't taking shortcuts. As long as that effort gets through to the viewers, we will be inspirational. Then there will be people who watch the show that want to get in and hands-on make outfits.

  

  Yaya Han
  • People
  • Long
  • Positive

• I grew up with 'Roseanne'; I kind of adore her and stuff like' Home Improvement', really traditional American stuff.

  

  Jessie Cave
  • Up
  • Home
  • American

• I had to shake the spot cause the game got crowded I'm devoted and quote it, I'm rowdy and bout it A No Limit Soldier, and happy to shout it.

  

  Snoop Dogg
  • Happy
  • Game
  • Soldier

• The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Trying

• My school career was absolutely crucial to me. As an endurance athlete, some of the most important years are maybe when you are 16, 17, and 18. For me, getting that right was very important, and my school allowed me to do that.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • Important
  • School
  • Career

• The arc of the American story is long, it is bumpy and uncertain, but it always bends toward a more perfect union.

  

  Jeh Johnson
  • Long
  • American
  • Perfect