"The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others."

-- William Blackstone

#Law Quotes #Judging Quotes

“I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.”
“I live in Paris but I feel I am a daughter of Europe.”
“A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.”
“The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.”
“One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.”

Source : George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.11, tredition
“I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.”
“I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'”
“Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.”

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