Dahlia Lithwick Quotes

The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.

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• We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Understand
  • Slaves
  • Whatever

• I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • College
  • Numbers
  • Coming

• Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Good
  • College
  • Summer

• I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Very

• Most of my stuff, I never really watch.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Never
  • Watch
  • Most

• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Naturally

• We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • People
  • Life
  • Yourself

• I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Strengths
  • Fooled

• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Husband
  • Child
  • Stubborn

• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Sad
  • About
  • Turning

• I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Winter
  • Legs
  • Spider

• We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Devil
  • September
  • Friday

• The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Life
  • Action
  • Spiritual

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Writing
  • Free

• I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Art
  • Dog
  • Rain

• I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don't have a dog, I can just pet my bag!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Worry
  • Dog
  • Pet

• Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • World
  • Party

• I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Live
  • Country
  • Support

• The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard when they are deciding whether to do the right thing.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Time

• That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don't change.

  

  Diana Krall
  • Long
  • Why

• The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Future
  • Wish
  • Inspired