Accordionlike Quotes

#1. If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordionlike quality.

William O. Douglas

#2. I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Ariana Grande

#3. I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see.

Rachel Cusk

#4. He had the kind of personality that makes you think a boy will grow up to be a public torturer. However,

Lindsey Davis

#5. Consider the Jewish joke, with the old lady running distractedly along the seashore: Help! My son the doctor is drowning. Amusing, I suppose. Her pride, I suppose, is amusing: it is greater than her love.

Martin Amis

#6. How's your father?"
"How do you think he is? You stabbed him in the foot."
"I would have aimed for his heart, but I wasn't sure he actually had one. Do any of you have one?

G.A. Aiken

#7. I think you should ignore Sara Teasdale (she's a bit of a moper, to be honest.).
Take Christina Rossetti's advice and be fire.

Mary Jane Hathaway

#8. Mostly, I expected to look at him and wonder how he could make a slave of a woman who could have any man she wanted.

C.D. Reiss

#9. There ought to be a law that allows eavesdroppers to sue.

Gill McKnight

#10. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference in your - and likely in others' lives as well. Yes is what keeps us all young. It's a tiny word that can do big things. Say it often.

Eric Schmidt

#11. When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it.

Ziauddin Yousafzai