Living Document Quotes

#1. To Randy and the others, the business plan functions as Torah, master calendar,
motivational text, philosophical treatise. It is a dynamic, living document.

Neal Stephenson

#2. Saying the Constitution is a living document is the same as saying we don't have a Constitution.

Walter E. Williams

#3. Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.

Chuck Norris

#4. Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document.

Al Franken

#5. The Constitution is a total living document that can change quite a bit.

Mark Kirk

#6. Constitution is a living document; no strict constructionism.

Barack Obama

#7. An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also in us, in the way we live our lives day by day.

Stephen Covey

#8. A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.

Malcolm Gladwell

#9. I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#10. October sunshine bathed the park with such a melting light that it had the dimmed impressive look of a landscape by an old master.

Elizabeth Enright

#11. We need to put people on the bench that understand the Constitution is not a living and breathing document. It is to be interpreted as originally meant.

Marco Rubio

#12. Thanks to my upbringing, I always believed in myself and worked as hard as I could to get where I wanted to be. Nothing was ever handed to me.

Gretchen Carlson

#13. Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn

Nick Flynn

#14. The law is what is read, not what is written.

Donald Kingsbury

#15. Your father has to die, better he dies in your arms.

Richard Ford

#16. I got to see the first step, hear the first word. Most people - and certainly working moms - are not able to do that. I wanted to appreciate the fact that I had worked so hard all my life to be able to have those moments.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#17. Microsoft is still living down its disastrous introduction of Clippy, a ghastly piece of artificial intelligence - I'm using that term very loosely - that would observe people's behavior as they worked on a document and try to bust in, offering 'advice' that tended to be spectacularly useless

Clive Thompson

#18. I chose to document the lives of people living in a remote village in Alaska called Shishmaref because there we can literally see how climate change is affecting their homes, livelihoods and ultimately their lives.

Amy J. Berg

#19. The crowd quieted as a whole, but more than one creature cursed under his breath, "Not Regin."
A drunk hunched over the bar muttered, "That glowing one made me eat a transistor radio once.

Kresley Cole

#20. It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

Seneca The Younger

#21. Attention is something I've learned to ignore. This is what I do: I live my life and they document it.

Rihanna

#22. Thus the little mermaid learned her world's greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.

Esther Dalseno

#23. I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot, and so there is no rest.

John Muir