Attainder Quotes

#1. Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation.

James Madison

#2. And to the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.

Melody Carlson

#3. We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen].

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#4. The heat from the lava was sweltering, and the air was hot and humid. Flames rose from the ground, as if the whole place was a giant BBQ pit. It was so difficult to breathe. I gasped for air, for normal air. As I stood there and looked around, sweat dripped continuously from my brow. Then

Steve The Noob

#5. Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.

Louis Pasteur

#6. The one you are looking for is you.

Osho

#7. It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.

Carolyn Parkhurst

#8. Music is undescribable, and no words can be said to understand it. The only way to understand it is to hear it.

Allyson McClain

#9. The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.
[Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech]

John Steinbeck

#10. It's not a struggle, but sometimes when you're gone for a month or two, you start to miss your friends. I love acting so much that it fills that gap of being sad about not being able to see my friends.

Willow Shields

#11. My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. I am in earnest
I will not equivocate
I will not excuse
I will not retreat a single inch
And I will be heard.

William Lloyd Garrison

#13. We immortals aren't misers - we don't hoard! Such things are pointless.

Margaret Atwood

#14. Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus some pathetic ideal standard for our species that survives all betrayals.

Rose Macaulay

#15. The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly. And, at the moment, one of is wings is clipped an we're never going to be able to fly as high.

Emma Watson