"One thing I've experienced and I feel really grateful for now that I'm on my way out is that I felt that the justices gave that back to me. I really did. You know, of course, you can have some sharp exchanges. That's the nature of the thing, and that's fine. But really in the main I felt like the tone from them was, "Yeah. We may not agree with you, but we're going to have a discussion about this." And it did."

Source : "Farewell to the General". Interview with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

Donald Verrilli Jr.

#Grateful Quotes #Justice Quotes #May Quotes

“In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.”

Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.291, Carcanet
“Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.”

Source : Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.273
“The etiquette of blurbs means it's not hard to not blurb something (if it's not by a friend, or student): everyone knows how many books you're deluged with. You can just say you never got to it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.”

Source : Interview with Bruce Labruce, www.indexmagazine.com. 2000.
“Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist.”
“This is tremendous. The labels have been saying all along that they can't compete with free, but there is a way to compete with free: high value content that's virus- free and gives people the chance to be first in line to buy expensive concert tickets. This is like loyalty clubs at the supermarkets.”
“The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates”

Source : 'Self-Help' (1859)

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