Learned Hand Quotes

I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

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• Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Goals
  • Individual
  • Exception

• Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.

  

  Oscar Fernandes
  • Country
  • Light
  • Religion

• It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • Start
  • Mountain

• I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Like
  • Busy
  • Cattle

• I think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it's more interesting, and you get to play out a fantasy version of yourself.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Different
  • Character
  • Think

• I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Stories
  • Books

• The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Politics
  • Revolution

• Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Charity

• Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Day
  • Legal
  • Offensive

• All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Government
  • Responsibility
  • Religion

• The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Work
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• I'd always felt from as far back as I can remember that where the issue of marriage is concerned, individuals should have the opportunity to marry and not be discriminated against.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Remember
  • Opportunity
  • Marriage

• Sometimes, I don't like making emotions your career; something about it is kind of gross. But, at the same time, I want to move people the same way the songs make me feel.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Hand
  • Humanity
  • Suffering

• One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Different
  • Quality

• It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Men
  • Black
  • Proud

• Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Life
  • Still
  • Therapist

• Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones fitted for survival in the nuclear age. The cockroach, a venerable and hardy species, will take over the habitats of the foolish humans, and compete only with other insects or bacteria.

  

  H. Bentley Glass
  • Men
  • Age
  • Science

• Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Legend

• Lincoln isn’t a man with ingrown toenails, he’s an idea.

  

  Mario Cuomo

• Nothing seems real anymore. Even the flames from the fire seem to beckon to me, drawing me into some great past life buried somewhere deep in my subconscious, if only I could find the key..if only..if only. Ever since my illness, my condition, I've been trying to find some logical way of passing my time, of justifying a means to an end.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

  

  Jose Garces

• I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

  

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