John Paul Stevens Quotes

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

John Paul Stevens

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• I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Best
  • Years
  • Review

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Time
  • Progress
  • New

• I don't mind a bikini bottom.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Mind
  • Bottom
  • Bikini

• I like to have something to base a role on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Like
  • Something
  • Role

• Truth is a tendency.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Tendency

• I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • More
  • Conscious
  • Rapper

• We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Influence
  • Events
  • Escape

• It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mind
  • Said
  • Fact

• What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Book
  • Understanding

• I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • World
  • She
  • Age

• India is a country with huge potential, and it remains an attractive high priority market for PepsiCo. We believe we have only scratched the surface of long term growth opportunities that exist for PepsiCo and our partners.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Country

• In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • World
  • Culture
  • Artistry

• I think it's important for politicians to have moral qualities.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Important
  • Think
  • Moral

• In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Bad
  • Earth
  • Evil

• The female in question was a sloppy pest

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Question

• We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Women
  • Success

• I find the big bang, really quite fascinating. I mean, here you have all these highfalutin scientists and they’re saying it was this gigantic explosion and everything came into perfect order.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Perfect

• I ain't lookin' at you dudes -I'm lookin' past you.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Past

• I love this life, because I am a human being and it sure would be nice, I think, to preserve it. But I don't even know if that's true, because God's mind is huge, and I don't really know what he's thinking.I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Faith
  • Humor
  • I Love

• Every emotion, from despair all of the way up to ecstasy; from complete Connection to who-you-really-are, all the way to pinching yourself off pretty severely, all of those emotions are about your perception of freedom, or your perception of bondage—every one of them.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Emotion
  • Perception
  • Despair

• The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

  

  John Paul Stevens