Top 47 Ervin Quotes
#1. Obviously you look at "Magic" (Ervin Johnson) and Michael (Jordan) and you learn from them growing up, but I think you are just born with it from day one.
Michael Redd
#2. Like most Americans of my age, I was very impressed by the dynamic capacities of the law, demonstrated by the Civil Rights Movement and then Watergate, animated by Sam Ervin's mantra that no person is above the law.
Scott Turow
#3. And as the story unfolded before the Ervin committee, it began to take on the characteristics of a Russian novel. Someone we had never heard of suddenly emerged as an agent in activities that were almost inconceivable.
Elizabeth Drew
#4. If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the homes and churches of our land, where this responsibility rightfully belongs. It must not be assumed by the government through the agency of the public school system.
Sam Ervin
#5. You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is dependent entirely upon what you are inside yourself
Ervin Seale
#6. There is one recurring, persistent, perennial, and dogging personal problem which, more than any other, steals the force and peace of people and ruins projects and enterprises and careers. It is the habit of feeling hurt, because of what others do, or do not do and what they say or do not say
Ervin Seale
#7. I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.
Sam Ervin
#8. It is what you think of this situation that governs you and not the situation itself. Causation is always in mind and not in things.
Ervin Seale
#9. The greatest sin of our generation is that we have forgotten who we are, and that is what has cost us most. We cry out in disbelief and wonder where our sense of unity has gone.
Jordan Ervin
#10. It is not what is happening to you but rather what is happening in you that determines whether you succeed or fail.
Ervin Seale
#11. Keep any description of trouble or sickness or error minimal, for there is something inside which is listening, and it says, 'Oh! You like this! I will make you a lot more of it.'
Ervin Seale
#12. How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness.
Chris Ervin
#13. Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Sam Ervin
#14. The boundaries of 'our universe' are not the boundaries of 'the universe.'
Ervin Laszlo
#16. Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.
Ervin Staub
#17. Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella.
Sam Ervin
#18. Perpetual emotion is the past time of the undisciplined mind.
Ervin Seale
#19. The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
Sam Ervin
#20. I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!
Sam Ervin
#21. The fig leaf garments of good works will never do! Faith in the blood of Christ is the only righteousness we can claim.
Ervin N. Hershberger
#22. Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?
Sam Ervin
#23. Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Ervin Knuth
#24. Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.
Donald Ervin Knuth
#26. Overstimulation has been the real drawback. I need to find ways to stop thinking about analysis of algorithms, in order to do various other things that human beings ought to do.
Donald Ervin Knuth
#27. Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.
Sam Ervin
#28. When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.
Sam Ervin
#29. A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.
Sam Ervin
#30. I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
Sam Ervin
#31. There is a constant and intimate contact among the things that coexist and co-evolve in the universe - a sharing of bonds and messages that makes reality into a stupendous network of interaction and communication.
Ervin Laszlo
#32. Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.
Sam Ervin
#33. Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women
can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead, an
inner spiritual strength which enables them to face those
storms with hope and serenity.
Sam Ervin
#34. If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.
Sam Ervin
#35. Mermaids are not what humans believe them to be.
J.K. Ervin
#36. You need to remember to give yourself enough slack to work with, but too much and you'll soon find yourself entangled and bleeding.
Andrew Ervin
#37. The unorganized mind will always be restless until its content is reordered.
Ervin Seale
#38. belief in yourself that you can do it, and the ambitious dedication to doing what needs to be done to do it.
Ervin DeCastro
#39. She floundered in a fog of his hatreds and desires, his
Carol Ervin
#40. I think of the friendships I've strained, the generosity I've exploited, the bridges I've torched. Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; with them, forgive yourself. There may be hope for me yet.
Anthony Ervin
#42. Nearly every example of faulty reasoning that has been published is accompanied by the phrase "of course" or its equivalent.
Donald Ervin Knuth
#43. The Supreme Court has made God unconstitutional.
Sam Ervin
#44. There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.
Sam Ervin
#45. Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.
Donald Ervin Knuth
#46. Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.
Sam Ervin
#47. A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.
Sam Ervin
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