Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

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• I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Love
  • Future
  • Study

• A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Truth
  • Win
  • Lawyer

• People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Simplicity
  • Selfishness

• You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Want
  • Things
  • Leave

• The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Human
  • Poet
  • Tiger

• Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.

  

  Chet Baker
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Seems

• As a coach, you feel like you're letting everybody down.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Feelings
  • Disappointment
  • Coach

• Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Experience
  • Door

• Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Night
  • Baby
  • Golf

• Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Live
  • Change

• Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Joy

• Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind.

  

  Plato
  • Rule
  • Excellence
  • Continent

• ...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Idea
  • Constitution
  • Instrument

• Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South Carolina has probably decided favourably before this time. The plot thickens fast. A few short weeks will determine the political fate of America for the present generation, and probably produce no small influence on the happiness of society through a long succession of ages to come.

  

  George Washington
  • Long
  • Age
  • Political

• Trade was clearly a factor.That was a complete reversal of where things are normally at. Usually Republicans are all for free trade.

  

  Collin Peterson
  • Trade
  • Factor
  • Reversal

• I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Individual
  • Constitution
  • Entity