"I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012."

-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#Years Quotes #Looks Quotes #United States Quotes

“A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.”
“Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.”
“I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write by hand, because I'm trying to achieve a kind of thoughtless state, or an unconscious instinctive state. I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.”
“The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?”
“To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is.”
“Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.”

Source : Edwin S. Shneidman (1974). “Deaths of man”, Penguin Books
“Real guts are nothing more than developing your inner voice to the point where it is louder and stronger than the voice of your fear.”

Source : Georgette Mosbacher (1994). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve”, Touchstone
“I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.”

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