#court

So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#brought #courts #favor #federal #federal courts

This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question. ↗

— Rick Ross

#certain #consists #court #days #documentaries

I try to do my best to have fun off the court. ↗

— Marat Safin

#court #fun #have fun #i #off

The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy. ↗

— Lamar S. Smith

#court #elected #policy #proper #social

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce. ↗

— Lemuel K. Washburn

#cruel #divorce #foolish #grave #her

Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body. ↗

— Baldassare Castiglione

#courtier #light #philosophy #religion #vice

…there is no other logical explanation for how things ultimately worked out except by God’s hand. ↗

— Kim De Blecourt

#international-adoption #kim-de-blecourt #orphans #ukraine #until-we-all-come-home

We, who have so much, need to reach out to the orphans of this world and show them the care, hope, and love they deserve. ↗

— Kim De Blecourt

#international-adoption #kim-de-blecourt #orphans #ukraine #until-we-all-come-home

You are stranded in a culture where you can’t trust many, you don’t fully understand the language, and you can’t read the signs—and at the same time you try not to let on that you can’t do those things. ↗

— Kim De Blecourt

#ginger-kolbaba #international-adoption #kim-de-blecourt #orphans #until-we-all-come-home

All over Atlanta that fall, in the blue twilights, girls came clicking home from their jobs in their clunky heels and miniskirts and opened their apartment windows to the winesap air, and got out ice cubes, and put on Petula Clark singing 'Downtown', and sat down to wait. Soon the young men would come, drifting out of their bachelor apartments in Bermuda shorts and Topsiders, carrying beers and gin and tonics, looking for a refill and a a date and the keeping of promises that hung in the bronze air like fruit on the eve of ripeness. ↗

— Anne Rivers Siddons

#south #dating