Anthony Lewis Quotes
Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages.
Quotes to Explore
-
I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
-
When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
-
I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
-
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
-
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
-
I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
-
Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
-
I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
-
I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
-
Im not your biggest girly girl.
-
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
-
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
-
I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
-
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
-
There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
-
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
-
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
-
A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
-
My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.
-
I'm not trying to make anyone forget the Babe; but only to remember Hank Aaron.
-
I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.
-
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.
-
It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.
-
Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages.
