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• Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Action
  • Emotional
  • Turn

• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Happiness
  • Without
  • Admire

• After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • Book
  • Practice

• I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.

  

  Zev Yaroslavsky
  • Disappointed
  • NFL
  • Disturbed

• I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Funny
  • Try
  • Pause

• Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • She
  • Bird
  • Wings

• I love wearing dresses that hug the body, but then, at the Oscars, I had a big dress, and I really loved that. It's a style I never thought I would wear, but I saw the dress, and I was like, 'Oh my God, that's it!'

  

  Camila Alves
  • God
  • Love
  • Style

• I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Done
  • History

• We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Better
  • Succeed
  • Concert

• My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Career
  • Legacy
  • Sport

• When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Up
  • America
  • Circle

• Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Truth
  • Truth Is

• I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Think
  • You
  • Actor

• The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Thinking
  • Trouble
  • Discover

• I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn't have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Up
  • Work
  • Summer

• The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Importance
  • Far
  • Middle East

• I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Moral
  • Assumption

• If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Up

• Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Body
  • Canada
  • Necks

• We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Good
  • Power
  • Hate

• Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Up
  • God
  • Career

• I'm not involved on any social media; it's really not my style.

  

  Chris Carter
  • Style

• Salutations

  

  E. B. White