Joseph Story Quotes

If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.

Joseph Story

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• Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Together
  • Working Together

• The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Up
  • Think
  • Problem

• I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • See
  • England
  • Wreck

• I found the brick-making process fascinating - how, after being burnt, the brick would come out strong. I liked to sit on the stack of bricks and look as far as I could. I'd do the same at a hillock near my school - just sit on top at leisure and enjoy the feeling of being on top of the world.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • World
  • School
  • Strong

• To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Done

• I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Money
  • House
  • Living

• I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • Free
  • Dog
  • Dating

• A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Die
  • Body
  • Sick

• Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Universe

• I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • World
  • Power
  • American

• You shoulda left the other day You let me beg for you to stay

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Left
  • Breakup
  • Let Me

• Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Children
  • History

• The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Universe
  • Purpose

• No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Why
  • Knowledge
  • Treasure

• Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Live
  • Dark

• I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Truth
  • Growing

• Love is beauty, consciousness is trust. One of the deepest feminine pleasures is when a man stands full, present, and unreactive in the midst of his woman's emotional storms. When he stays present with her, and loves her through the layers of wildness and closure, then she feels his trustability, and she can relax.

  

  David Deida
  • Men
  • She
  • Trust

• What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons - reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Men
  • Reason
  • Mistake

• Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • She
  • Nation
  • Agriculture

• I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Good
  • School
  • Lost

• Increasingly, we are seeing cyber attacks coming from states, organs of states. The most recent and troubling of these has been Russia.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • States
  • Russia
  • Cyber Attacks

• I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property.

  

  Michael Badnarik
  • Protect
  • States
  • Unconstitutional

• If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.

  

  Joseph Story
  • Constitution
  • States
  • Compact