Learned Hand Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
-
I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
-
We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.
-
I can't do anything in moderation.
-
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
-
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
-
I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
-
To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
-
Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
-
I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!
-
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
-
I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.
-
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
-
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
-
I want to do a romantic comedy. Like a 'When Harry Met Sally' romantic comedy... A really sweet, show-my-vulnerability kind of role.
-
Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.
-
Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
-
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
-
I never weighed myself when I was at my lightest because I didn't want to know.
-
God made the integers, man made the rest.
-
I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.
-
I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
-
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.
-
The public needs the equivalent of Chevrolets as well as Cadillacs.
