Edward Levi Quotes

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

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• I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Dark
  • Magic
  • Mood

• I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Guy
  • Like
  • Needs

• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Money
  • Madness
  • Collective

• Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Movies
  • Successful
  • Stars

• Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Control
  • Day
  • Sleep

• First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • People
  • Real
  • Money

• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Illusions
  • Drop
  • Luggage

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • True
  • Alone
  • Leader

• Everyone needs help when they try something new.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • New
  • Try

• Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Reputation
  • Washington
  • Some

• Angela Merkel puts Germany first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • First
  • Germany
  • Puts

• We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • World
  • Money
  • Success

• I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Win
  • Gold

• Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • Young
  • Had
  • Engineer

• Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.

  

  Zendaya
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Age
  • Old Age

• The charity work is just a part of what I do. Like... I make time to clean my house, to care for my pets, to visit my extended family, because those things are important to me. Same with helping others.

  

  Lori Foster
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

  

  Joan Sutherland

• I was a super tomboy growing up.

  

  Britt Robertson
  • Up
  • Growing

• From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

  

  Christopher Moore

• As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

  

  Edward Levi
  • Time
  • May
  • Law