Doretha Quotes & Sayings

Legal practice is, to a great extent, ethically ambivalent. Lawyers pledge to represent their clients zealously, and so they are charged, where their client is wrong, with trying to make the weaker argument appear the stronger. Yet, they also see themselves as officers of the court, or agents of the state, and in that role they should seek to enforce the law as intended and must act honestly. — Joel P. Trachtman

It encapsulates so neatly the lesson of expectation and reality that it could serve as a parable. The fact that tomatoes are good is beside the point. If you think you're getting an apple, a tomato will revolt you. That New York should be nicknamed the Big Apple, that an apple is the fruit of humankind's first error and the expulsion from paradise, that America and paradise have been linked and confused ever since Europeans first hit its shores, makes the story reverberate as myth. — Siri Hustvedt

Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible. — Jerome K. Jerome

Suspicion is the greatest enemy of love whether it is true or not. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You want to know the best way to keep your hormones balanced? With your diet. — Adina Grigore

I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. — Christian Bale

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else. — Lawrence Block

And I'd let him- not because I weakened and wanted sex, but because it would have been spiteful, beyond redemption, not to allow us this hope. — Amy Tan

In fact, I've met countless believers who have said, "The church is an organism, not an organization." Yet as they formed those very words, they continued to be devout members of churches that were organized along the lines of General Motors and Microsoft. — Frank Viola

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. — Jonathan Swift

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later. — Kimbra

He looked hopelessly melted. Sex definitely led to smudging. — Clancy Nacht