Angelo Codevilla Quotes

Nowadays, the members of our ruling class admit that they do not read the laws. They don’t have to. Because modern laws are primarily grants of discretion, all anybody has to know about them is whom they empower.

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• We want to bridge the digital gap to provide broadband access to 100 per cent of our educational institutions and to make it widely available to all people.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • People
  • Want
  • Bridge

• My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writer
  • Editor
  • Publisher

• All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • World
  • Best
  • Golf

• The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Golf

• It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Balance
  • Friendship
  • Without

• I'm not that interested in people.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • People
  • Interested

• I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • America
  • Health
  • Blessed

• The press should not get special privileges - if they drive recklessly or put people in danger, they should be subject to every reckless driving and endangerment law on the books - but they should also not be singled out for special punishment.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Law
  • Driving

• His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered.I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Free
  • Deep
  • Tears

• I'm just really happy.

  

  Jacoby Jones
  • Happy

• The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Imagination
  • Secret
  • Civilization

• I got good grades but no particular comment stands out in my memory, I'm afraid. I was one of those annoying and rather boring model pupils.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Memory
  • Comments
  • Stands

• Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

  

  George Clooney
  • Done
  • Film
  • Wells

• The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Hurt

• They love the country, and none else, who seek For their own sake its silence and its shade. Delights which who would leave, that has a heart Susceptible of pity, or a mind Cultured and capable of sober thought.

  

  William Cowper
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Causes
  • Evils
  • Despised

• People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Respect

• People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • People
  • Old sound

• Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind.

  

  Plato
  • Rule
  • Excellence
  • Continent

• Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

  

  Aristotle
  • Laws
  • Written
  • Unaltered

• The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

  

  James Cook
  • Laws
  • Human Nature
  • Social Planners

• Juventus have always had exceptional players. I've played against them and against Italy many times. They're a tough team with great quality.

  

  Mario Mandzukic
  • Team
  • Quality
  • Players

• Nowadays, the members of our ruling class admit that they do not read the laws. They don’t have to. Because modern laws are primarily grants of discretion, all anybody has to know about them is whom they empower.

  

  Angelo Codevilla
  • Laws
  • Empower
  • Ruling Class