#proceeding

I didn't attend any of the court proceedings. ↗

— Norma McCorvey

#attend #court #i #proceedings

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#infinity #last #nothing #proceeding #reason

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature. ↗

— Elihu Root

#civilized #consists #fact #forces #lies

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#chamber #counsel #end #found #haul

To be sure, in some instances these proceedings have been unconstitutional, but we must remember that it is not the first time since a war that there have been changes in governments by such methods. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#changes #first #first time #governments #instances

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#historically #inherently #oaths #open #open society

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#cave #day #desert #divorce #farmer

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#change #era #ever #feel #hardly

A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#america #asking #basis #betrayal #committee

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air. ↗

— George Combe

#alarm #astonishment #avoid #catching #caused