Top 37 John Paul Stevens Quotes
#1. They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade.
John Paul Stevens
#2. In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim Croce and Cat Stevens brought back the interest in acoustic music. Today, we don't hear anything.
Paul Stookey
#3. Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned.
John Paul Stevens
#4. Death is not easily escaped, try it who will; but every living soul among the children of men dwelling upon the earth goeth of necessity unto his destined place, where the body, fast in its narrow bed, sleepeth after feast.
Chauncey Brewster Tinker
#5. To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.
John Paul Stevens
#6. The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.
John Paul Stevens
#7. A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson ... and he never was much use.
Walder Frey
George R R Martin
#9. When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene.
John Paul Stevens
#10. I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.
Andrew Motion
#11. Sure we're in limos. We're stars. How else is a star supposed to travel?
Deion Sanders
#12. Happy the lover who exercises, then
Goes home to sleep all day with a handsome boy.
Theognis
#13. If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?
Charles Spurgeon
#14. Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin..
John Paul Stevens
#15. Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.
Lisa Kleypas
#16. The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.
John Paul Stevens
#17. It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.
John Paul Stevens
#18. Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to produce correct answers than the open discussion of countervailing views.
John Paul Stevens
#19. Relationships are as much a work of art as a drawing. It takes time. It takes a lot of erasing, smudging, and redoing. In the end, it's usually worth it. Sometimes, it's not.
R.K. Ryals
#20. To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?
John Paul Stevens
#21. A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.
Lawrence LeShan
#22. A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.
John Paul Stevens
#23. If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
Samuel Johnson
#24. The clothes I like are not necessarily tailored.
Greg Lynn
#25. The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.
John Paul Stevens
#26. Whenever we remove a brick from the wall that was designed to separate religion and government, we increase the risk of religious strife and weaken the foundation of our democracy.
John Paul Stevens
#27. "After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."
Max Beerbohm
#28. The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
John Paul Stevens
#30. You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or a hundred other good novelists or poets than by seeing another round of John Ford revivals.
David Denby
#32. Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.
John Paul Stevens
#33. I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment ... We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.
John Paul Stevens
#34. I'm Short and fat and proud of that!!
A.A. Milne
#35. After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.
John Paul Stevens
#36. One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.
John Paul Stevens
