John Ensign Quotes

I can honestly say that being a United States senator has been the honor of my life.

John Ensign

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• My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.

  

  Fleur East
  • White
  • Bread
  • Rubbish

• The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Soul
  • Law
  • Balance

• The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Perfect
  • Civilization
  • Rare

• In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Lights

• There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • People
  • Pride
  • Humility

• The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Secure

• You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • People
  • Home
  • Movies

• It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • True
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Up
  • Way
  • Audience

• I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Good
  • Stupid
  • Hockey

• My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Me
  • Childhood
  • Challenges

• It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • World
  • Music
  • Community

• Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.

  

  Lactantius
  • Nature
  • Son
  • Island

• My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • World
  • Real
  • Job

• I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Want
  • Die
  • Identity

• My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Girl
  • Stop
  • Week

• We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Country
  • Together
  • President

• When you’re a charmer the world applauds they don’t know that secretly charmers feel like they’re frauds When you’re a charmer you hate yourself a victim of sideshow hypnosis like everyone else.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • World
  • Hate

• Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Honor
  • Sin
  • Wealth

• I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • Honor
  • Christmas

• The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
  • Beginning

• Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,--when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth--when their love is prosperous and confessed.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Love
  • Hearts
  • Confessed

• I can honestly say that being a United States senator has been the honor of my life.

  

  John Ensign
  • Honor
  • States
  • Honestly