Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

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• Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Diversity
  • Thousand

• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Home
  • House

• When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Black

• Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Humble
  • Ride
  • Beginnings

• All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Done
  • Thought
  • Admire

• I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Democracy
  • Form
  • Worship

• If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Great
  • God
  • Family

• As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Man
  • Control

• No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Community
  • Hand
  • Dead

• Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Dance
  • Shadow

• Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Age
  • You

• Great men always pay deference to greater.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Great
  • Men
  • Great Men

• Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.

  

  Laura Dern
  • True
  • Eyes
  • Worry

• I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Literature

• As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Mistake

• Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Nothing
  • Succeed
  • Without

• When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introduced us, I said 'Hi' - and turned my back. Later, I called my mom and best friend and said, 'I think I just met my wife.'

  

  Mike Vogel
  • Defense
  • Sarcasm
  • Mechanisms

• Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.

  

  George Washington
  • Vision
  • Discipline
  • Resources

• War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

  

  Keir Hardie
  • War
  • Government
  • Murder

• The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Government
  • Literature
  • Capitalism

• The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Government
  • Resources
  • Property