Benjamin Cardozo Quotes

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

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• The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • History
  • New

• I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Women
  • Free

• It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • People
  • Life
  • You

• Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Time
  • Blood
  • Battle

• There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Power
  • Day
  • Universe

• The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • High
  • Day

• I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Up
  • Day
  • Week

• I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Life
  • Music
  • Trying

• I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Music
  • Children
  • Choices

• My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Time
  • Job
  • Power

• We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • World
  • Thoughts
  • Explore

• I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • World
  • Nature
  • Man

• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Danger

• I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

  

  Sally Ride
  • College
  • End
  • Really

• I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore – she teaches me to dance.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Dance
  • Working
  • Teaches

• I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it's not mainstream.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Up
  • World
  • Experience

• We should bring in an environmental attitude, and I think luxury should automatically be about sustainability and quality.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • Quality
  • Attitude

• I had a multicultural exposure; that's why I don't believe in a particular religion. I have respect for most because I grew up surrounded by so many. I don't judge people by that, and I feel extremely offended when people categorise based on race, religion, or gender.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Law
  • Judge
  • Improvements

• Judicial restraint is a buzzword just like activist judge. Everybody's in favor of judicial restraint, but what does it mean? If it means not acting as a check against majoritarian excesses or upholding constitutional rights against improper government action, then restraint is not something admirable.

  

  Evan Wolfson
  • Judge
  • Restraint
  • Constitutional Right

• The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Judge
  • Judging
  • Goodness