Jonathan Turley Quotes

Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency.

Jonathan Turley

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• I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information?

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Business
  • Technology

• Education is the largest and most important investment Utah makes.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Important
  • Education
  • Utah

• A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Change
  • Some
  • Conservation

• I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Water
  • Childhood
  • Sea

• If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Good
  • Chance
  • Direction

• When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Up
  • Play
  • Enough

• From reinforcing beaches in the Rockaways to installing generators at the Coney Island Houses and sealing holes in the subway system, New York is fortifying our ability to withstand future storm surges.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Future
  • New
  • Storm

• Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Work
  • Music
  • Energy

• The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Death
  • Terror

• At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Character
  • Turn
  • Legal

• I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • More
  • Social
  • Russia

• Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Women
  • Man
  • Care

• The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Trying
  • First
  • Everything

• I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Business
  • Remember

• I don't cover golf tournaments anymore - I preside over them.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Golf
  • Over
  • Anymore

• OK, everybody, I got to get to Star Wars.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Star

• Ambitio multos mortales falsos fieri subegit, aliud clausum in pectore, aliud in lingua promptum habere, amicitias inimicitiasque non ex re, sed ex commodo aestimare, magisque vultum quam ingenium bonum habere.

  

  Sallust

• Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • House

• I've always wanted to be in the health and wellness business. I try to encourage people to live a healthy lifestyle.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • People
  • Live
  • Business

• At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

  

  Andrew Wyeth
  • Age
  • Painting

• But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Think

• There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Spring
  • Sunshine
  • Restlessness

• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Young

• Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency.

  

  Jonathan Turley