Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given.

Sandra Day O'Connor

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• Gratitude
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• I fight because I like challenges.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Like
  • Fight
  • Challenges

• I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Trying

• Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Want
  • Faith
  • Respected

• The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Freedom
  • Loss
  • Presence

• I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.

  

  J. Cole
  • Music
  • Small
  • City

• Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Doing
  • Back
  • Impression

• A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Success
  • Star

• After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Night
  • Water
  • Myself

• I hope, that in our archives and historical filings of the future, we do not allow the techie traditions of hierarchy and false regularity to be superimposed to the teeming, fantastic disorderlyness of human life.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Future

• YOU LYING WHORE!!! You used me! You never loved me! I hope you slide under a gas truck and taste your own blood! DIE! DIE! DIE! I want my records back! I want my fucking records back!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Truck

• Fate will not be confined by paragraphs.

  

  Alfred Rosenberg
  • Fate

• We can't afford to cede our leadership in developing and deploying the advanced, clean fuels of the future that will grow our economy, lower our energy bills, reduce pollution, and protect the health of our families and communities. And America's farmers and rural communities have to be at the heart of this effort.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Heart
  • America
  • Future

• Where do those golden rainbows end? Why is this song so sad? Dreaming the dreams I've dreamed my friend Loving the love I love To love is just a word I've heard when things are being said Stories my poor head has told me cannot stand the cold And in between what might have been and what has come to pass A misbegotten guess alas and bits of broken glass…

  

  James Taylor
  • Why
  • Song
  • Friend

• I am convinced, Yorick, continued my father, half reading and half discoursing, that there is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world; and that the soul of man has shorter ways of going to work, in furnishing itself with knowledge and instruction, than we generally take with it.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • World
  • Work
  • Father

• I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Universe

• The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Moral

• The day of the week changes, but one day in the week I eat vegetarian.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten

• I've read comics all my life and have wanted to write a comic for as long as I can remember. Alex Barnaby and Sam Hooker seemed like the perfect team to make the move into the graphic medium.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Life
  • Long
  • Remember

• When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.

  

  Saib Tabrizi
  • Time
  • Men
  • Morning

• Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Force
  • Genius

• Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Thinking
  • Forever

• It's a business driven by curiosity. If you don't want to go out and learn about the world and see the place, it's the wrong business. But if you do... I've had an unbelievable front row seat.

  

  David Muir
  • World
  • Business
  • Curiosity

• I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Father
  • Born
  • Common

• I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Thinking
  • Gratitude
  • Appreciate