Learned Hand Quotes

'I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken.' I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every courthouse, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, 'I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that we may be mistaken.'

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• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Never

• I think my numbers speak for themselves.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Numbers

• If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Strange

• No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

  

  Beck
  • Artist
  • Drive
  • Bargain

• I was authorized to do everything that I did.

  

  Oliver North
  • Everything
  • Did
  • Authorized

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Needs
  • According
  • His

• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • Character
  • Desire

• No person is just one particular emotion.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Person
  • Emotion
  • Just

• What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Very
  • Our
  • Self-Awareness

• Success is the sweetest revenge.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Success
  • Revenge
  • Success Is

• I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Movie
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• We are going to position ourselves as a world-class financial institution. We want to do things that are comparable to the best in the world. At the same time, we want to have very strong human qualities.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Time
  • World
  • Strong

• 'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Book
  • Night
  • Party

• Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

  

  Lactantius
  • Free
  • Guilty
  • Fierce

• Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Why
  • Experience

• Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • God
  • Years
  • Word

• And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Believe
  • Law
  • I Believe

• What I'll remember about New York is growing up really fast.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Growing

• They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

  

  Jock Sturges

• The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.

  

  Gary Hume
  • School
  • Art
  • Going

• I had three intentions when I became a wrestler. One was to keep my integrity. Two was to give pro wrestling a more respectable image. And three was to be a role model to Jewish kids, who may not have thought they could do what I do.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • May
  • Kids
  • Model

• The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.

  

  Conleth Hill
  • Work
  • Mind
  • School

• 'I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken.' I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every courthouse, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, 'I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that we may be mistaken.'

  

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