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

• 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 almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Think
  • Day
  • Cool

• We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Expect
  • Expecting

• During a campaign, the trick is to spend no more than 15 to 30 seconds with anyone and to keep moving so that you not only shake a few hundred hands but also have a thousand people see you doing it.

  

  Peter Navarro
  • People
  • Moving

• I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they'll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they've clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding!

  

  Jason Isaacs
  • Up

• But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.

  

  Preston Brooks
  • Time
  • Country
  • History

• The era of Christianity peace, brotherhood, the Golden Rule as applied to governmental matters is. yet to come, and when it comes, then, and then only, will the future of nations be sure.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Future
  • Peace
  • Christianity

• 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