Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.

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• I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Human
  • Laugh
  • Absurd

• I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Believe
  • Impossible

• I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Music
  • Age
  • Gift

• If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Think
  • Chance

• I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Water
  • Film
  • Years

• There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Great
  • Tired
  • Sister

• The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Work
  • Man
  • Price

• Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Men
  • Today
  • Doubt

• I have very eclectic tastes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Very
  • Tastes
  • Eclectic

• Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Bad
  • Together
  • Band

• If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Changes
  • Kill
  • Shape

• I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.

  

  Babasaheb
  • You
  • Die
  • Will

• Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Single
  • Now
  • Mouth

• If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Book
  • Man
  • Bible

• The thing I like to do most is shop.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Like
  • Most
  • Shop

• We always learn more from the losing than the winning.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Winning
  • Learn
  • Losing

• When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Changed
  • Kid
  • Loudest

• It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Care
  • Credit

• If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Power
  • Duty
  • Fit

• Because, you see, the cruel gods are stronger than the kind gods, and they will always beat them in the end. You doubt it? Look at the world, my brother, my sister. And so the spirit of Roth is here with me also, and battles for my soul. And I don't know who will win.

  

  Anthony McGowan
  • Soul
  • Win
  • Battles

• I'm looking forward to losing the long locks at some point. But it's been fun, and I do enjoy it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Losing

• I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.

  

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