#ff

If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off. ↗

— Charles Fried

#committed #courts #ideologically #law #off

SO when I got word from three different sets of people who all said Manson had cancer, I knew I couldn't get straight info from his staff and had no choice but to go over the fence for it. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#choice #different #different sets #fence #get

You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#baghdad #bomber #day #deploy #exactly

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within. ↗

— Caspar David Friedrich

#bodily #bring #close #darkness #effect

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#been #between #enthusiasm #ever #feet

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. ↗

— Paul Fussell

#advertise #affiliations #anxiety #automobiles #college

I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will present an ambitious program promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency. Europe could quickly fall behind. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#ambitious #behind #certain #could #efficiency

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#certain #characters #doubts #excepting #existence

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#children #drop #go #him #i

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I know that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#age