Determinate Sentencing Quotes & Sayings

They are the key components of our civilization. I want to show that inside these political, economic, legal and social black boxes are highly complex sets of interlocking institutions. Like the circuit boards inside your computer or your smartphone, it is these institutions that make the gadget work. And if it stops working, it is probably because of a defect in the institutional wiring. You cannot understand what is wrong just by looking at the shiny casing. You need to look inside. — Niall Ferguson

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. — Tom Stoppard

There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by Congressional vote is certainly one of them. — Roger Altman

The Russian Federation and the United States of America, the two biggest nuclear powers in the world, but apart from nuclear-wise, we have a lot in common. We have huge territories, natural resources, technologies, science, education, and of course human capital. — Sergei Lavrov

When you are on foot, to arrive you must walk. — Frederic Gros

When humor goes, there goes civilization. — Erma Bombeck

When I made you my Everything, you gave me nothing. If I made you my Nothing would you want to give me everything? — Kate McGahan

We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry. — Hasan M. Elahi

- Then ... it was like ... I don't even know how to describe it. Color and light and music and life and joy and love ... so many wonderful things, all the lovely things that make up the world and make it worth living. — Richelle Mead

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home. — Roderick Haig-Brown

One has to be careful, whenever one tells a story about a great injustice. We are a species that loves narrative, but has been taught not to trust an individual speaker. — Ken Liu

Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday. — Joan D. Chittister

Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question. — Archibald MacLeish

You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being ... Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues. — Richard Dawkins

The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure. — Gerald R. Ford