Decemvirate Quotes & Sayings

I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage. — Jodi Picoult

All religions are both harmful and untrue. — Bertrand Russell

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas. — Helmut Newton

Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time. — Kirk Hammett

Allowing unelected judges to declare laws enacted by popularly elected legislatures unconstitutional and invalid seemed flagrantly inconsistent with free popular government. Such judicial usurpation, said Richard Dobbs Spaight, delegate to the Constitutional Convention from North Carolina, was "absurd" and "operated as an absolute negative on the proceedings of the Legislature, which no judiciary ought ever to possess." Instead of being governed by their representatives in the assembly, the people would be subject to the will of a few individuals in the court, "who united in their own persons the legislative and judiciary powers," making the courts more despotic than the Roman decemvirate or of any monarchy in Europe. — Gordon S. Wood

MAT26.41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. — Anonymous

The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways. — Henning Mankell

By Believeing,One sees — James C. Christensen

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics. — James Rainwater