William O. Douglas Quotes

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

William O. Douglas

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• I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• Life is like an analogy.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Life
  • Like
  • Analogy

• I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Play
  • Wife
  • Queen

• I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up... and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.

  

  Johnny Cash
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Little Richard was it for me, man. Later, it was Ray Charles and Bobby 'Blue' Bland, B.B. King.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • King
  • Blue

• If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

  

  Arthur Bloch
  • Long

• I love the producer, Joel Rice. We worked together years ago putting a project together.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Together

• I do not feel the need to play in Ligue 1, nor in the Premier League or in Serie A.

  

  Antoine Griezmann

• My major ambition is just to stay relevant.

  

  James Corden
  • Ambition

• If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.

  

  Joe Montana
  • Trying

• There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

  

  Lee Trevino
  • Golf

• People are very ready to criticize other people's accents. There's no correlation between accents and intelligence or accents and criminality, but people do make judgments.

  

  David Crystal
  • People

• I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.

  

  Joe Nichols
  • Art

• Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

  

  Bruce Barton
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Action

• There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.

  

  Douglas Hofstadter

• Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

  

  Ciaran Hinds
  • Why
  • Lost

• Nature is bottom up. It's compelling and complex, and it fills me with joy and it's inconsistent with the top down view.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Joy

• O.J. Simpson existed in a bubble. So when Harry Edwards approached him about being involved in the Olympic Project for Human Rights, O.J.'s response was, famously, "I'm not black - I'm O.J." O.J. had ambitions to be famous, rich and liked by everyone, and I think he understood that being political and militant as a black athlete was not a way to engender universal love.

  

  Ezra Edelman
  • Love
  • Political
  • Response

• I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Legislation