Justice Holmes Quotes

#1. Science makes major contributions to minor needs, Justice Holmes was fond of saying, adding that religion, however small its successes, is at least at work on the things that matter most.

Huston Smith

#2. I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#3. Those are the men who will dance at your wedding.

Guy Madison

#4. Adaptability is the name of the game; if you understand that you must now be adaptable and flexible, you will find a way to succeed in your career. If not, you will succumb to job market pressures.

Miles Anthony Smith

#5. If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.

John Haynes Holmes

#6. Ron Paul is in favor of letting states legalize marijuana, prostitution, and cocaine. So even if he doesn't win, that's going to be one heck of an election night party.

Jay Leno

#7. When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#8. All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

Swami Vivekananda

#9. Every calling is great if greatly pursued."-Late Former Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

R.W. Preston

#10. Everybody, I think, who hopes to become a judge would aspire to be able to write as well as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. None are going to be able to attain that.

Merrick Garland

#11. You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

Keanu Reeves

#12. Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#13. Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

Jewel

#14. Strength without agility is a mere mass.

Fernando Pessoa

#15. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage ... Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe ...

James Madison

#16. The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#17. Good leaders have a generosity gene.

Jack Welch

#18. If you only read what you agree with, you'll never learn anything. - James D. Hodgson

Pat Williams

#19. Your only limitation is how much action you are willing to take

Carrie Wilkerson

#20. I write to feel alone.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#21. All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#22. This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#23. We must not close our eyes to the fact that there are conspiring men who would pollute young boys, and girls of corresponding age, for sake of increasing profits.

David O. McKay

#24. This is the antinomy: insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence.

Friedrich Nietzsche