Gareth Barry Quotes

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Lives that are so conspicuous have a claustrophobic feeling. Once you're in charge of running a country, you're under scrutiny all the time. That's a trap.

I live my life and I do what I do, and sometimes you forget that people are watching you.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.

When I talk to young people about entering government, I tell them, “Now think of the worst thing you’ve ever done in your life. Don’t tell me what it is. Now think about having it on the 10 o’clock news.”

I am not running for president, but I've always known if I ever did run for president - or local dogcatcher, for that matter - the boy I bullied would and should arise as a necessary ghost from my past.

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.

I think there's nothing new going on. Except that, you're even more public than you've ever been.There's some good and some bad to that.

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.

You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.

There is no free will if to exercise it in certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and renders it counterfeit.

We are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them.

I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions. But intentions aren’t enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you’re able to make a choice. It’s the choice that counts.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.

If you have something to get off of your chest, there is a proper way to do it. Everybody has a bad day, and, for some people, you're under a microscope and you have to deal with the consequences of having a bad day in front of people. But everyone has them.