Appellant Quotes

#1. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.

Tacitus

#3. Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#4. To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
[Lat., Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.]

Tacitus

#5. There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff.

Finn Taylor

#6. Mental rehab is way tougher than the physical part ... [You think] I'm tired of doing the same thing [exercising] all day. It's tough, but you've got to overcome it.

Will Poole

#7. So it's okay to kill if your intentions are pure?" "Hasn't that always been the case?" Eliot takes a swig of his beer and flops back on the sofa. "Revenge. Capital punishment. Euthanasia. War.

Judd Trichter

#8. To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave - that was magical.

Ransom Riggs

#9. During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.

Bill Gates

#10. Swag defines an artist, period. Lil Wayne has his super-tattooed pierces and dreads swag. Jay-Z has his New York, grown man, Beyonce and 40/40 Club swag.

Soulja Boy

#11. Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton.

Donald Johanson

#12. In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#13. What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#14. - "How about flipping a coin;" she made a pretty remark and the two women turned around and
looked at her irritated.
- "That's right, go ahead, jock about it. You are not the one trying to change her heart, I am, and you
know damn well how painful that can be!"
Sand of Passion

Georgia Kakalopoulou

#15. Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

William J.H. Boetcker

#16. Anything we have not had to decipher, to bring to light by our own effort, anything which was already clearly visible, is not our own.

Marcel Proust

#17. As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was measured from a different stick than my brothers.

Mary E. Pearson

#18. Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#19. My musical taste is like a 16-year-old girl's when it comes to working out - Rihanna, Black Eyed Peas, Miley Cyrus. I love it all!

Jessica Capshaw