Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

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• There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Today
  • Way
  • Understand

• Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Business
  • Silence
  • Bird

• The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Man

• I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Reality
  • Past
  • Alone

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Relationship
  • Say
  • Manager

• When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Father
  • Myself

• Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.

  

  Sally Field
  • History
  • Small
  • Year

• On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • End
  • Back
  • Bus

• It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • School
  • High
  • Problems

• I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Body

• Then spoke the thunder DA Datta: what have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heart
  • Age
  • Friend

• Democracy will win - because a government’s legitimacy can only come from citizens; because in this age of information and empowerment, people want more control over their lives, not less; and because, more than any other form of government ever devised, only democracy, rooted in the sanctity of the individual, can deliver real progress.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Real
  • Age

• In fact, safety has no place anywhere. Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow (an appalling animal to watch at the trotters.) And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It is impossible to be alive and safe.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Design

• The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• A man being sued after a woman has more sex than intended is like Lay’s being sued after someone has more potato chips than intended. In brief, date rape can be a crime, a misunderstanding, or buyer’s remorse.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Sex

• The neurosis of normality is a case of repetition compulsion caused by the repression of awareness.

  

  Sam Keen

• I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

  

  China Mieville
  • Today
  • Science
  • Interesting

• No rack can torture me, My soul ’s at liberty. Behind this mortal bone There knits a bolder oneYou cannot prick with saw, Nor rend with scymitar. Two bodies therefore be; Bind one, and one will flee.The eagle of his nest No easier divest And gain the sky, Than mayest thou,Except thyself may be Thine enemy; Captivity is consciousness, So’s liberty.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • May
  • Soul
  • Enemy

• Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Nature has time without limit, but man has immediate need for better and still better food, houses and clothing, and our present state of civilization depends largely upon the improvements of plants and animals which have consciously and half-consciously been made by man, and future civilization must more and more depend upon scientific efforts to this end.

  

  Luther Burbank
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Future

• Jay gave me a co-sign like I was RocaWear, but be clear I'm not the air/heir I'm the water, fire and the earth That means I'm doing dirt, spitting flames and quenching thirst

  

  Wasalu Muhammad Jaco
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Air

• If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • May
  • Innocent
  • Statistics