Nina Totenberg Quotes

Judges have no actual power of enforcement. They don't have troops to carry out orders. They have no power of the purse. Yet our system of laws depends on lowly citizens and presidents abiding by court rulings.

Nina Totenberg

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• The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Blood
  • Old
  • England

• Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Movies
  • First
  • Hollywood

• I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Child

• For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Joy

• As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.

  

  Jarrett J. Krosoczka

• It's OK when something doesn't work. It gives you another data point when things do work.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Work

• Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Help
  • Think
  • Feeling

• When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work the hardest in the world end up being the poorest - I can't just sit back and not try to understand why the gaps between people are increasing, or why there are so many homeless and hungry people in the world.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Live
  • Money
  • Power

• It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Time
  • Long
  • Girl

• My wife has cut our lovemaking down to once a month, but I know two guys she's cut out entirely.

  

  Jack Roy
  • She
  • Wife
  • Guys

• If a Snickers chocolate bar has 50% sugar, wouldn't it be safe to eat the other half?

  

  Wakas Mir
  • Chocolate
  • Half
  • Bars

• It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Hope
  • Despair

• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Job
  • Career
  • Feeling

• Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Lonely
  • Ancient
  • Grange

• The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he judges 'what harms me is harmful in itself', he knows himself to be that which in general accords honour to things, he creates values.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Values
  • Judges
  • Honour

• Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Citizens
  • Congress
  • Abiding

• Judges have no actual power of enforcement. They don't have troops to carry out orders. They have no power of the purse. Yet our system of laws depends on lowly citizens and presidents abiding by court rulings.

  

  Nina Totenberg
  • Citizens
  • Judges
  • Enforcement