#fairness

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness. ↗

— Star Jones

#being #believe #country #courtroom #fairness

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in. ↗

— Mel Torme

#medium #per #perform #popular #pretty

It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#because #benefits #children #cloth #cut

In contrast to what most prosecutors do, we try to treat all individuals with complete fairness. We do not go out and hold press conferences and the like. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#conferences #contrast #fairness #go #hold

After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#flowers #garden #gardening #mother #sacrifices

Good cheaters always have honest intentions towards each other. It is what makes a fair advantage possible. ↗

— Bauvard

#fairness #funny #humor #funny

ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice. ↗

— Aeschylus

#fairness #impartiality #judgment #justice #men

So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#basis #challenge #create #development #fairness

My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone. ↗

— Mike Honda

#always #equal #equal pay #everyone #fairness

Jill had three basic statements about life, 1. It is your life, usually with some added social commentary. 2. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things. 3. No one ever said that life was fair. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#family #friendship #home #inspitational #life