Takings Quotes

#1. The case decided on Thursday, though, seemed promising to takings fans because it wasn't about compensation. It was about the requirement that any government taking must have a 'public purpose.'

Michael Kinsley

#2. Then I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing, because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings.

Elvis Costello

#3. The 'takings' clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

Michael Kinsley

#4. Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

Simone De Beauvoir

#5. began takings cabs

Barack Obama

#6. The Democratic Party might be called the Takings Coalition, made up of groups that want the government to take from American citizens
usually cash
and keep it for itself.

Grover Norquist

#7. It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

Michael Kinsley

#8. These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life; not so sad, indeed, for they want the reality of sadness; but quite as perplexing, and generally less satisfactory.

Anthony Trollope

#9. It was one of those confused moments, emotionally, when the listener could not be quite sure what position radio was takings - for hurricanes or against them. A

E.B. White

#10. Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

Kelly Link

#11. You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.

Sophia Loren

#12. Or maybe, just maybe, he'd got close enough to sense the melancholy that sits at the core of her, usually hidden deep behind a superficial mask of cheerful sarcasm.

Matt Haig

#13. To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

Matthew McConaughey

#14. We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.

Johnny Cash

#15. For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.

Paul Haggis

#16. My school almost lost its accreditation. If that had happened, my diploma wouldn't have been worth anything.

Richard Sherman

#17. When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth.

George A. Romero

#18. To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

Samuel Johnson

#19. The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.

William J. Clinton