Learned Hand Quotes

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

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• My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Career

• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
  • History
  • Problems

• We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see - adhere - to secularism.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Country
  • Children
  • See

• There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Listening
  • Silence

• There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Politics
  • Radio
  • Getting

• Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Writing
  • Fiction
  • Attractive

• I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Me
  • Better
  • Opportunities

• As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Best
  • Better

• There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Important
  • Game
  • Best

• Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Family
  • Google
  • Soviet

• By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • World
  • May
  • End

• I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Great
  • Eye
  • Color

• Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Need
  • Take
  • Spine

• I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Home

• Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.

  

  Sai Baba
  • World
  • Man
  • Interests

• Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Life
  • Women
  • Poetry

• Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Why
  • Want
  • Ignorance

• I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.

  

  M. Emmet Walsh
  • Different
  • Together
  • Animal

• I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • I Work
  • Addicts
  • Columbia University

• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• If you want to appeal to everyone, you can't do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date - when you're in Australia, when you're in Dubai, when you're in Indonesia.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

  

  Johannes Tauler
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

  

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