#nearest

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution. ↗

— Byron White

#constitution #constitutional #court #deals #design

Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#boat #clothes #crew #crew members #four

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#bureau #earth #government #immortality #nearest

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring. ↗

— Bob Considine

#bring #call #day #each #find

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. ↗

— David Hume

#alone #avidity #destructive #directly #friends

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#came #crowd #effects #few #first

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#darkness #finds #light #nearest #sorrow

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#car #excited #get #go #hawk

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch. ↗

— George Byron

#any #common #common sense #fact #had

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#blurt #dearest #ever #everybody #get