Amicus Quotes

#1. Amicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.
[Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam
Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]

Ovid

#3. When we're not a party, we sometimes file as amicus, as friend of the court, 25, 30 times a term, sometimes more. And in each of those cases, we've got to decide what position the government's going to take. And that is the solicitor general's job to make that decision.

Donald Verrilli Jr.

#4. neither the NAACP nor any other predominantly African American organization filed an amicus brief challenging Japanese internment in the World War II case of Korematsu v. United States.

Richard Delgado

#5. The spouses of authors ought to really read their better halves books. What is found amidst those pages may enlighten them to knowing a side of their partner that can only be seen on the written page.

Sai Marie Johnson

#6. He coughs. Not a good sound. Too deep, too full of coffins.
Why is mankind so fucking cruel?
Why?

Sally Gardner

#7. That she was now more tired and forgetful, while able to do three times what she had been able to do when she was somewhat less tired and forgetful but also stressed, guilty, grouchy, and overwhelmed, seemed a small price to pay.

Kamy Wicoff

#8. As long as there's choice, the end is never set.

Nora Roberts

#9. In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

Mason Cooley

#10. Two footsteps do not make a path.

Nnedi Okorafor

#11. Life is like a flame that is always burning itself out ...

George Bernard Shaw

#12. History may not repeat itself," in Mark Twain's wise formulation, "but it rhymes.

Adam Smith

#13. A pure belief can not be forced on human's heart.
If it could, no need for terms such as 'I've told you'.

Toba Beta

#14. Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Geri Weitzman

#15. Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

Robert Mueller

#16. A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

Rebecca West