109th Precinct Quotes

#1. We can bear the sun not to set, but we cannot bear the sun not to rise!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!

Robert Gottlieb

#3. When people are in their Element, they connect with something fundamental to their sense of identity, purpose, and well-being.

Ken Robinson

#4. Nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness. He

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that's the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly changing social, economic, and technological conditions.

Stephen Breyer

#7. Destiny brought two souls, Jeremiah and Lailah Akita, to light the world with love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Caring for someone is scary [ ... ] But you can't fear dictate your life [ ... ] Don't live life hiding behind your past, live right now. When you find someone you want to spend forever with, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or a year or a hundred years

Nicole Williams

#9. If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?

Confucius

#10. I rather doubt he had the sense to see the truth: that there are wounds worse than fatal, which the law's little binary distinctions-guilty/innocent, criminal/victim-cannot fathom, let alone fix. The law is a hammer, not a scalpel.

William Landay

#11. [T]he world springs out of a want, out of privation, but it is false speculation to make this privation an ontological being.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#12. When the condemning weight of the law is removed, people don't react with wild sin, as we might expect; they relax in their new freedom.

Tullian Tchividjian

#13. High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve.

Jack Canfield

#14. I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.

Ludwig Van Beethoven