John Fleming Quotes

We have too many in Washington who are all too willing to just go along with the status quo and not make any waves.

John Fleming

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• My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Teacher

• I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Women
  • American
  • Dream

• One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Focus

• Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Why
  • Always
  • Thought

• People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don't work, but as I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve. And if you don't vote and you don't pay attention, you'll get policies that don't reflect your interest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Attention

• Of all the punctuation marks; he told me ellipses were his favorites.

  

  Patrick Modiano

• My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People

• Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,Adorns and cheers our way;And still, as darker grows the night,Emits a brighter ray.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Night
  • Light

• Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Bitter

• He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Perfect
  • Style

• I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Home

• I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • Real
  • Reading

• Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • World

• I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

  

  Pierre Salinger
  • Son
  • Emotional

• I just love Dolly so much, and Loretta. They both are songwriters that knew what they wanted to say; they were bucking a system.

  

  Maren Morris

• Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

  

  Linda Cardellini
  • People
  • Catholic

• I sang everything - R&B slow jams, Spanish slow jams, romantic reggaeton - and I really didn't care which I got signed for.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Romantic
  • Spanish

• With modelling, there's nothing to work on other than losing weight. I definitely had an eating disorder.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • Work

• Without elephants, Africa's landscape would be unrecognizable, yet these animals have fallen by the hundreds of thousands as a result of two enormous waves of poaching in this century - one in the 1970s and 1980s, the other, beginning around 2009, now underway.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • Beginning
  • Waves

• I was very eager to produce an oscillator for short waves. I was doing science with microwaves, and I would get down to a few millimetres in wavelength, but I wanted to get shorter wavelengths; I wanted to get into the infra-red because I saw there was a lot more to be done there.

  

  Charles H. Townes
  • Done
  • Science
  • Red

• I tell you what: when you are getting married to Miranda Lambert, you're going to make time for whatever she wants.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Time
  • She

• In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Men
  • Behavior
  • Expected

• We have too many in Washington who are all too willing to just go along with the status quo and not make any waves.

  

  John Fleming
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