Heather Brooke Quotes

We pay a lot for our court service, but it's not enough. Courts are under-resourced, which leads to delayed justice - particularly in criminal courts.

Heather Brooke

• Injustice
• Court service
• Criminal courts

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• Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Good
  • Seriously

• I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Growing

• I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Body
  • Opinions

• I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Control
  • Brave
  • Trapped

• Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Up
  • Heart

• The banks have accounts with the Fed, much the same way that you have an account in a commercial bank.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Bank
  • Account
  • Fed

• The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Art
  • Reading
  • Fiction

• That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Hope
  • Imagination
  • Restore

• I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Father
  • College
  • Firsts

• E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream thy flowing wounds supply, redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die.

  

  William Cowper
  • Saws
  • Streams
  • Theme

• The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Value
  • Idea

• I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world?" After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Government
  • Violence
  • Problems

• Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Earth

• You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Hope
  • Woman
  • Eat

• If your like me, you like to wait till your parents are having sex and walk in on them and act like its an accident, and then ask if you can join in.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Waiting
  • Sex
  • Parent

• I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

  

  Dannie Abse
  • Real
  • Littles
  • Drunk

• Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Friendship

• In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Problem
  • Hunger
  • Injustice

• An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Fight
  • Motivated
  • Injustice

• We pay a lot for our court service, but it's not enough. Courts are under-resourced, which leads to delayed justice - particularly in criminal courts.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Injustice
  • Court service
  • Criminal courts