Scott Turow Quotes

There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.

Scott Turow

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• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Free
  • Simplicity

• I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Law
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Question
  • Best

• I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Long
  • Man

• The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Time
  • Change
  • Yourself

• I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Life
  • World
  • Childhood

• As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • House
  • Options
  • New Yorker

• Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Good
  • Art
  • Always

• I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Dance

• Hate is a very strong and heavy emotion, probably as strong as love. I don't think I can live with hatred. If something bad happens, you feel bad about it; you forgive and move on. There's no hatred.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Feel

• I'm not a negative person.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Person
  • Negative

• It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Control

• There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • World
  • Joy
  • Acting

• During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Time
  • Men
  • Competition

• Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Never
  • Facts
  • Old

• O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• How much do you smoke, sir? Two packs a day, is that right? Pussy. I go through two lighters a day. That's right, two lighters! You're a health nut compared to me. You're like the Jack LaLanne of smokers compared to me.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Health

• One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Always
  • Mad
  • Others

• He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must lay aside the doubt; and if he has not hitherto done so, he must confess it, at least, as it is before God. But the scrupulous, who have doubts about everything, must follow another rule: they must obey their confessor. When he tells them to conquer their doubts, and to act against scruples, they should obey with exactness; otherwise they will render themselves unable and unfit to perform any spiritual exercise.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Done
  • Spiritual

• This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • Time
  • Great
  • Heart

• The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

  

  Boss Tweed
  • Law
  • Broken
  • Appearance

• There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Law
  • Challenge
  • Crimes