John Marshall Harlan Quotes

#1. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing ... not healing, not curing ... that is a friend who cares.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#2. God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.

Jodi Picoult

#3. Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

Michael Jackson

#4. What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms ... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises them at their most positive, their most material and true.

Brassai

#5. Enjoy your work and have ethical standards.

Walter Schloss

#6. The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.

John Marshall Harlan

#7. [O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric.

John Marshall Harlan

#8. Privacy in one's associations ... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.

John Marshall Harlan II

#9. But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.

John Marshall Harlan

#10. Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

Barbara Coloroso

#11. To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

#12. We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source) the will to strive. That is enough; there is no need to assert 'belief' in that which we do not, as yet, know.

Robert A. Heinlein

#13. Mistakes Are Life's Lectures You Didn't Plan To Attend But Situations Or People Made You Attend Them ... Pay Attention And Learn From Them

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#14. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

John Marshall Harlan

#15. The State has a superfluity of testicles, Peersa said with no particular emphasis.

Larry Niven

#16. We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard for that emotive function which, practically speaking, may often be the more important element of the overall message sought to be communicated.

John Marshall Harlan II

#17. Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.

John Marshall Harlan

#19. My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.

Billy Graham

#20. One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.

John Marshall Harlan II