Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Washington

We'll be asking to set aside the Court of Appeals decision.

Jamie Iannone

We built eBay Express because we wanted to appeal to the convenience-oriented buyers.

Robert Jackson

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.

Paolo Iorio

The defense lawyer is filing the appeal this morning and I expect the hearing to be set for Sept. 9.

ASAP Rocky

I wanted to appeal to people who've never really listened to hip-hop or really given it a chance before. I've also tried to incorporate all my favorite lifestyle things in the music. Of course, 'Fashion Killa' is one of peoples' favorites because it just expresses how much I like fashion.

Rick Sherlund

We believe investors will need to hunker down for a potentially long process, possibly leading through appeal into 2001, ... For now, this will be a prominent issue but may become a back-burner issue during lulls in the action.

Finley Dunne

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of your favorite movie; you don't want to watch it 15 times.

Martha Stewart

Without the stay, her appeal would have been meaningless.

Terence McElroy

I don't think passing on the suppression costs would be done just as a deterrent. The fact of the matter is many people have lost their property and homes and someone has to pay for that. Under the law, someone is liable for it.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Hjalmar Branting

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

Lenny Bruce

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

Thomas Aquinas

Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.

Terry Waite

Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.

Jules Michelet

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

Karl Kraus

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Paul Krugman

Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death (though it can happen), so in that sense the gap between rich and poor has narrowed. But the question isn't whether society is, in some sense, more equal than it was in 1900. It's whether it is radically more unequal than it was in 1970. And of course it is.

Katharine Hepburn

I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

George MacDonald

Moderation is the basis of justice.