William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes

The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.

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• I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Things
  • I Can
  • Worth

• You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.

  

  Bai Ling
  • You
  • Chinese
  • Follow

• Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Present
  • Find
  • Partner

• Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • You
  • Listening

• For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Done
  • Art
  • Change

• I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • World
  • Like
  • Place

• I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.

  

  N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
  • Way
  • Like
  • Shadow

• I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Grateful
  • Peaceful

• My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • She
  • Mother
  • Respect

• Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • She
  • Best
  • Beauty

• The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Mistake
  • Voice
  • Easy

• I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Think
  • Person

• I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Why
  • Trees

• I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Time
  • Week
  • Doctor

• After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Night
  • Water
  • Myself

• We have no other alternative than independence, or the most ignominious and galling servitude. The legions of our enemies thicken on our plains; desolation and death mark their bloody career; whilst the mangled corpses of our countrymen seem to cry out to us as a voice from Heaven.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Career
  • Death
  • Heaven

• If there are a couple of adjectives people use to describe me, anger is usually in there. I've never taken that as criticism. It's the way I naturally communicate. But I'm not faux-angry, like Lewis Black, or angry like a gun-toting crazy person. I'm just angry in a mild way - it's not like I'm going to do anything about it.

  

  David Cross
  • People
  • Black
  • Crazy

• It's easy to clean up when you got money.

  

  J. F. Lawton
  • Up
  • Money
  • Easy

• Natural-born American means you don`t have to be naturalized. You were born to an American mother, like President Obama, no matter where you were born.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • American
  • Mother
  • Mean

• People still want to escape, but today's escape is different. People now want to know that there are people out there who have more problems and are a train-wreck! This is why I think it's difficult for sitcoms these days, because people are not going to believe, joke, beat, beat, joke, because there ain't nothing to laugh about.

  

  Darius McCrary
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
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