John O. Brennan Quotes

Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world - leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world.

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• The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Social
  • Court
  • Supreme Court

• Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Price
  • Treasure

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Direction

• I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Work Hard

• The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Best
  • Trouble
  • Possible

• When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Night
  • Single
  • Myself

• Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Great
  • Knowledge

• I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Love
  • Small
  • Comedy

• I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Fashion
  • Retreat
  • Cave

• If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Write
  • Writers
  • Influenced

• I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Dark
  • Blue

• It's great living with your best friends.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Best

• I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Acting
  • Theory
  • Student

• I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Real
  • Trying
  • School

• In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Literature
  • King

• When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Character
  • Future
  • Past

• Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Happy

• Last year we saw rookies play extremely well at quarterback, and they beat us; Pittsburgh beat us soundly.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Game
  • Success

• I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • World
  • Die
  • Start

• You have to realize that the customer really is king. People who go into more established businesses probably have to be careful not to be casual about that. When you have a brand-new business, and nobody knows who you are, you know you have to work really hard for your customers.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• It's the confidence that says if I'm open shoot the basketball. I've been making shots my whole career. I can't turn down an open shot. I'm sorry, I can't do it. If I'm open, and a guy's 30 feet away from me, I've got to let it go.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Guy
  • Career
  • Confidence

• Greater intelligence, wealth and opportunity, for example, allow a person to achieve ends he could not rationally contemplate otherwise.

  

  John Rawls
  • Opportunity

• Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world - leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • People
  • World
  • American