Adam Cohen Quotes
Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'Adam Cohen
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
Quvenzhane Wallis -
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel Johnson -
The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
Adam Carolla -
In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
Abu Bakr -
Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
Walter Kirn -
Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.
Victoria Pendleton
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
Kate Adie -
I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. Watt -
I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
Bear Grylls -
We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
Laura Wade -
Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
Kapil Sibal -
Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
M. Night Shyamalan
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We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
Barry Schuler -
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
W. H. Auden -
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
W. H. Auden -
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
Karl Kraus -
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
Adam Ferguson
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The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.
Wilma Scott Heide -
My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. You do not love humanity if you seek to divide humanity into jealous camps. Humanity can be welded together only by love, by sympathy, by justice, not by jealousy and hatred. I am sorry for the man who seeks to make personal capital out of the passions of his fellowmen. He has lost touch with the ideal of America. For America was created to unit mankind.
Woodrow Wilson -
Out of resistance comes strength.
Napoleon Hill -
Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.
Washington Allston -
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Aristotle -
Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'
Adam Cohen