John Marshall Quotes

The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.

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• I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Like
  • Marvel

• Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Interesting
  • Value
  • Military

• It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • World
  • Good
  • Different

• What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Style
  • Flow

• Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Things
  • Leads
  • Unclear

• I gotta say, I know my strengths, and I know my weaknesses, and, well, Fix-It Felix, I'm not too far from that kid.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Know
  • Say
  • Kid

• The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Believe
  • Stop
  • Yourself

• Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Bad
  • Man
  • Pride

• We have an impact on nature, and nature has an impact on us.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Nature
  • Impact
  • U.S.

• I am a straightforward man.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Straightforward

• Es gibt nicht zwei Momente des individuellen Lebens, die einander ganz gleichen; und es existiert zwischen den späteren und den früheren Perioden nur die Ähnlichkeit der Punkte der höheren mit den homologen der niederen Spiralwindung.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Die

• Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountains start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Free

• Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • America
  • Beautiful
  • Democracy

• The Euthyphron then gives us a two-fold presentation of piety. First, a discussion of what piety is. Secondly, a presentation of the problem of Socrates' piety.

  

  Leo Strauss

• It goes without saying that the slogan does not mean death to the American nation; this slogan means death to the US’s policies, death to arrogance.

  

  Ali Khamenei
  • American
  • Death

• To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

  

  Martin Lawrence

• I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • People
  • Up

• You would think with me living in Los Angeles I would go to the beach all the time, but we don't. It's the same as visiting the Statue of Liberty. If you don't live in N.Y.C., it's the first stop on your family vacation, but if you live there, you only go if you have relatives visiting from out of town!

  

  Marissa Jaret Winokur
  • Time
  • Live
  • Family

• When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • She
  • Past
  • Strong

• I'm for innovation and a commitment to a rising tide that lifts all boats for all Americans.

  

  Clark Durant
  • Commitment
  • Innovation

• If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Job
  • Like
  • Succeed

• People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.

  

  Tom Snyder
  • Result
  • Voters
  • Immigrant

• The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.

  

  John Marshall