Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

I'm not on the court anymore, so no use looking for my philosophy. If somebody's waiting for that, they can wait for another justice.

Sandra Day O'Connor

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• I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Waiting

• People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • People
  • Up
  • Waiting

• The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • People
  • American
  • Death

• I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Happen

• My philosophy is to be me.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Me
  • Philosophy

• The right of all of our citizens to enjoy fair and equal access to housing opportunities is guaranteed by our laws. The U.S. Department of Justice is committed to fiercely protecting those rights in order to ensure the quality of life all Americans deserve.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Justice

• Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Best
  • Choices

• The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • People
  • Kind
  • Literature

• We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Work
  • Age
  • Justice

• Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Important
  • Political
  • Justice

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Justice
  • Conscience
  • Court

• What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Understanding
  • Justice
  • Empathy

• I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.

  

  Dan Wakefield
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• What I love about Popsicle and the moments I can be with Camden is that their whole philosophy is family and these moments that it can create to just sit with my son, read a comic book or go outside on a hot day, take a swim and have a Popsicle treat with him.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Family
  • Book
  • Moments

• To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Long
  • Country
  • History

• Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • She
  • Justice
  • Model

• I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Waiting

• Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Today

• I always thought I'd be the quintessential Earth Mother, but when I had Harrison, I really wasn't the natural mother that I always thought I would be. I adore children, but I was never that interested in newborn babies.

  

  Jane Green
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Earth

• The really big challenge is delivering the social justice agenda in the Belfast Agreement, which hasn't been delivered.

  

  Mike Nesbitt
  • Justice
  • Challenge
  • Delivering

• If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • College
  • Moving
  • Football

• I'm not on the court anymore, so no use looking for my philosophy. If somebody's waiting for that, they can wait for another justice.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Justice
  • Waiting
  • Philosophy