Perpetuities Quotes

#1. He was teaching the common-law rule against perpetuities, which limits how far into the future a will can control a line of inheritance.

Sonia Sotomayor

#2. Because when you hate something, you stop doing it.

Nora Roberts

#3. There are those whose love awakens our own and those whose love undermines. As long as we are blind to this fact, true love will elude us.

B.G. Bowers

#4. But consider whether you may not get more help from the customary method[1] than from that which is now commonly called a "breviary," though in the good old days, when real Latin was spoken, it was called a "summary."[2]

Seneca.

#5. The only thing that had saved her then was knitting. In prison she had become a compulsive knitter. Knitting allowed her to unite, to connect, to integrate. With every stitch she held on to dear life. Threads hold us together.

Laura Esquivel

#6. While I was there, Voyager flew by Saturn. I got involved with a person who was a member of the imaging team and started working on data from Saturn, ... With all that data coming in, the imaging team didn't have enough hands or scientists to work on all of it.

Carolyn Porco

#7. I put hardwood floors on top of wall-to-wall carpet.

Steven Wright

#8. I can't bring myself to move. Because as soon as I do, it will be time to be polite and matter-of-fact and back to normal. And I can't bear that. I want to stay here. In the place where we can say anything to each other. In the magic spell.

Sophie Kinsella

#9. The Rule of 72 is useful in determining how fast money will grow. Take the annual return from any investment, expressed as a percentage, and divide it into 72. The result is the number of years it will take to double your money.

Peter Lynch

#10. The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

Joseph Addison

#11. The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.

Anthony Albanese

#12. I swear that when our lips touch, I can taste the next 60 years of my life.

Rudy Francisco

#13. Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.

Sam Neill

#14. I've always been someone with a small circle of friends. Each stretch of my life has been defined by one person who was just my person. We became inseparable for a certain number of years, and that time was our season, just the two of us making our way through life.

Colin Trevorrow

#15. Whatever one thinks of the justifiability of drone attacks, it's one of the least 'brave' or courageous modes of warfare ever invented. It's one thing to call it just, but to pretend it's 'brave' is Orwellian in the extreme.

Glenn Greenwald