Bill Of Attainder Quotes & Sayings

I don't like to get beat in anything! — Jeff Gordon

I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain. — Dorothy Allison

Stephens resumed speaking as the crowd quieted. He referred to one final "improvement" the Confederate Constitution had introduced, a brief but crucial clause that banned forever any "bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves." "The new Constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions - African slavery as it exists among us - the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization." This question, Stephens baldly admitted, "was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution."20 Stephens then referenced — Don H. Doyle

Trane's playing is literally the most convincing proof of God's existence I've ever come across. — John Green

And yet the irony was that she soon placed herself in the margins voluntarily, giving up work for family, because she imagined that when she eventually arrived at her deathbed, she would feel more regret about unborn children than unwritten books. — Matt Haig

I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips. — Yael Stone