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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds. Thomas Sowell
The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's. Tom Stoppard
I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. W. Somerset Maugham
Patricia Cornwell quote: "I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did,..."
I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely Patricia Cornwell
Haruki Murakami quote: "A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but..."
A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do. Haruki Murakami
L. M. Montgomery quote: "I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think..."
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T. L. M. Montgomery
Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it. Elizabeth Goudge
And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn’t wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it. Paulo Coelho
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am? my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls. John Coltrane
Emily Giffin quote: "The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way."
The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way. Emily Giffin
I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart. L. Frank Baum
You do not want a war. You have known violence. You have suffered loss. But you have seen nothing of war. War is not just the business of death. It is the anti-thesis of life. Hope, tortured and flayed. Reason, dismembered, grinning at it's limbs in it's lap. Decency raped to death. You will be a murderer. And more. Joss Whedon
Bill Maher quote: "Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy..."
Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream? Bill Maher
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest, “I want... Christopher Morley
A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it! Christopher Morley

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