John Britton Quotes

Every place it's been tried, the federal courts have thrown it out.

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• I would like to enlighten people.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • People
  • Like
  • Would

• Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted nor needed.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • My Life

• Charities are now working to give people in poor countries access to the Internet. But shouldn't we spend that money on providing health clinics and safe water? Aren't these things more relevant? I have no intention of downplaying the importance of the Internet, but its impact has been exaggerated.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Money
  • Health

• Jack: pointing a pistol at Bob's trousers I'm going to blow your brains out.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Blow

• He is a gentleman of strict conscience, disdainful of all littleness and meanness and ready on the shortest notice to die any death you may please to mention rather than give occasion for the least impeachment of his integrity. He is an honourable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • May
  • High
  • Death

• Once you start worrying, it's hard to stop.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Stop

• I'm technologically challenged, so I finally hooked up Bluetooth in my truck so I can talk going down the road.

  

  Kurt Busch
  • Up
  • Road
  • Truck

• For the most part, I was surprised by the representation of female characters onscreen. I do hope that when we include more female storytellers, we will have more of the women that I recognize in my day to day life.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Life
  • Women
  • Hope

• When people say crazy stuff about me or my family, I don't take it seriously.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • People
  • Family
  • Crazy

• Even moderates, they can see in Trump the potential to have logjams broken and things finally get done. This makes some conservatives and some liberals furious, nervous, and me nervous a little bit, because I'm a pretty pure conservative. So that's a potential of his leadership.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Leadership

• The judgements about the severity of the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of a mass destruction - WMD - were presented with a certainty that was not justified.

  

  John Chilcot

• James Joyce actually is rewarding you in all of these incredible ways.

  

  Jesse Andrews

• It's really interesting to go back to '93 or '94 and listen to that music, like the I'll Lead You Home record.

  

  Michael W. Smith
  • Music
  • Home
  • Interesting

• Whan the sunne shinth make hay, whiche is to say, Take time whan time comth, lest time steale away.

  

  John Heywood
  • Time

• A gene that promotes nurturing behavior postcopulation could... spread throughout the population, to the extent that the offspring of people with the nurturing gene fare better, as a group, in the competition for resources and mates.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • People
  • Competition

• In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Soul
  • Song
  • Stories

• Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Path
  • Walking

• The joke may be that no one likes fruitcake, but if that were the case, they wouldn't appear on store shelves every holiday season!

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Joke
  • Fruitcake

• Every decision you make in life, not just on the sporting field - a lot of time and energy goes into it. You think things through before you make decisions and you always think the decision you make at the time is going to be the right one.

  

  Ricky Ponting
  • Decisions
  • Going
  • Before

• O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.

  

  John Milton
  • Madness
  • Strongest
  • Wines

• It's a Tenth Amendment issue. If you want Washington, if you want to implement their standards, that's your call... We certainly had higher standards than Common Core, so it was a very easy decision for Texans, myself and the legislature included, to basically say we still believe that Texans know how to best run Texas.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Believe
  • Education
  • Running

• In many courts, plea bargaining serves the convenience of the judge and the lawyers, not the ends of justice, because the courts simply lack the time to give everyone a fair trial.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Justice
  • Judge
  • Lawyers

• Every place it's been tried, the federal courts have thrown it out.

  

  John Britton
  • Thrown
  • Courts
  • Federal