#guardian

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear. ↗

— Rose Bird

#hear #judiciary #like #may #moment

With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb. ↗

— Howard Carter

#dawned #doorway #evidence #gradually #guardian

The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other way—that people who are jerks to begin with gravitate toward verdant sanctimony. ↗

— James Taranto

#jerks #meanness #nastiness #sanctimony #the-guardian

I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be here without the help of someone else - whether it be guardians, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. - someone contributed to your well being as a person. We're all connected in so many different ways. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#being #connected #contributed #different #different ways

If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple idea applies to writing, I hope. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#interview #motivational #rule #the-guardian #writing

Most people would call me incompetent, clumsy, flawed..." "A pearl is a flaw. A diamond is an accident of nature. In all of creation, there's nothing more precious than the unexpected deviation. ↗

— Todd Mitchell

#nature

We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#ancestors #back #children #continuum #fundamental

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me. ↗

— Toby Young

#column #fired #firing #first #got

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#guardians #i #i wonder #in fact #life

When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world. ↗

— Zahi Hawass

#belong #find #guardian #new #pyramids