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

• 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

• 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

• As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Great
  • Long
  • Business

• People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • People
  • Long
  • Change

• To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Up
  • Long
  • Book

• It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.

  

  Yasmin Ahmad
  • Up
  • Together
  • Perfect

• Summertime and the livin' is easy,Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.Oh yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma is good lookin',So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Good
  • High
  • Baby

• I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.

  

  Mario Batali
  • Book
  • Cooking
  • Italian

• Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • God
  • Sunrise

• 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