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.
-
The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
-
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.
-
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
-
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
-
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
-
The further through life I driftThe more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
-
It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.
-
News organisations that have been around a while have a lot of traditions and ways of doing things that may have served them for many years but perhaps make them less flexible in the digital era. As an entrepreneur, it just makes more sense to start something new.
-
The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next. Well, perhaps it will be the most urgent thing. Or the easiest. In fact, the most important thing probably isn't even on your agenda.
-
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.
