Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nina Totenberg

He may be for conservatives what (Justice William) Brennan was for liberals.

Rebecca West

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

William J. Brennan

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

Woodrow Wilson

Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.

William J. Clinton

Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

William J. Clinton

I love the HRC. The initials are great.

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

Vartan Gregorian

The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.

Johnny Nelson

It can lock a motor. Fuel injection problems, you have to clean the fuel tank out, all the fuel injection systems. If you're lucky, it didn't get into anything like that or get it too seriously in the motor.

Monica Johnson

God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently; He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean

Paul Gillis

I think it's going to do a lot of good for the city. I think that it's going to help out by cleaning up the houses, some of the streets.

R. Inge

I think it's great. I'm glad they're cleaning up the sport. I don't like it that anything can be tainted with an illegal substance. It's just going to make the playing field a little more level.

Paul Rothstein

It is a big message to Washington officials that if you only would come clean you would probably be OK.

Tracy Bowen

It isn't getting better. We just keep cleaning it up every year.

Patrick Brady

If we could come up with a technology that works like that, at even a fraction of that level, the cost to clean water would come down dramatically.

Atharva Veda

I have conquered and cleaned thee out (?); I have also gained thy reserve. As the wolf plucks to pieces the sheep, thus do I pluck thy winnings.

Robert Pozen

I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young.

Robert Plant

If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.

Sarah McLachlan

I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

Margaret Spellings

I'm encouraged... we're on the right track, especially with younger students,

Narendra Modi

The young generation of today is globally connected. They want to live in an equitable and efficient India. We have to be ready for this, and work for this.

Ian Mckellen

It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Ruth Rendell

I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.