"Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other."

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Craig McDonald

#Swings Quotes #Texas Quotes #Hands Quotes

“There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun.”
“Why is it fair game to question conservatives' love or loyalty to children or to their fellow man, but beyond the pale to question liberals' love of country?”
“Women age early, and their mistake is not knowing where to hide all the time that lies behind them so that no one sees it. What are they to do, devour it like the umbilical cords of their children? Hell and damnation!”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek, Michael Hulse (1992). “Lust”, Profile Books
“I don't believe a handgun should be in the hands of anybody”
“Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.”
“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”
“Faith is not a soft option offered to people who need a crutch to get through the rest of their lives. Faith is the supernatural activity of God whereby He opens blind eyes, unstops deaf ears, and a man or a woman says- â€œI see it now. I get it now. I am going to trust in God. I am going to trust in Jesus.”
“I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.”

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