Roiphe Harpers Quotes

#1. If we fulfill our responsibility to the Constitution, the Supreme Court will be filled with superior legal minds who will pursue the one agenda that our founding fathers intended in writing the Constitution: justice, rather than political or personal goals.

Chuck Grassley

#2. [I am not] one of those thoughtless people who always uncritically accept what is new as necessarily better.

Pope Benedict XVI

#3. The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

Nawal El Saadawi

#4. [Practical intelligence is] practical in nature: that is, it's now knowledge for its own sake. It's knowledge that helps you read situations correctly and get what you want.

Malcolm Gladwell

#5. There's the kind of camaraderie that comes from leaning on someone in battle, and it's powerful. It's not too hard to trust someone to want to keep you alive. But trusting someone to actually live with you, to walk beside you - that is a fragile, precious thing.

Emmie Mears

#6. Squeeze the rich until the pips squeak

Denis Healey

#7. Looks can't hide your true identity. It's the eyes that give you away ... the soul behind them. The intent. The Shadows.

Vicki Pettersson

#8. I don't want 100 different cures of cancer. I want, you know, give me five. So if you had, you know, five medicines, you could do away with 90 percent of cancer. That's sort of my objective. I think we're going to do it.

James D. Watson

#9. Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.

Richard Widmark

#10. I did a lot of hiking and I loved it.

Ashley Judd

#11. If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is the danger of feeling romantically drawn to someone who does not see you as an equal.

Gloria Steinem

#12. Once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.

Robert Lucas Jr.

#13. Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.

Claire Tomalin

#14. True children of God experience pleasure in giving.

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