"I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized."

-- Arlen Specter

#Thinking Quotes #Judging Quotes #Independence Quotes

“If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.”

Source : "Lara Logan: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2012.
“I was not using the gears I usually do for time trials - it was either hard [gear] to pedal, or really low [gear] to pedal; [that] was something special of today.”
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.”
“Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.”

Source : Barber B. Conable (1991). “The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91”
“Ric Flair, you can tell all these people that I'm full of it for calling myself the Legend Killer? Well, I think you're full of it for coming out here every Monday and telling the whole world that Triple H is the best wrestler in the world today. I know it's not true, I'm pretty sure all these people know it's not true and Ric Flair, I know that deep down inside your heart, you know it's not true either which is why it's so tragic to see what you've become. This generation is gonna remember Ric Flair for kissing Triple H's ass!”
“I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.”
“Books serve us simply by opening a window on all we wanted to say and feel and think about. We may not even notice that they have not said it themselves till we go back to them years later and do not find what we loved in them. You cannot keep the view by taking the window with you.”

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