Grand Juries Quotes & Sayings

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten. — Dion Fortune

Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward. — Jodi Picoult

Putting pressure on grand juries to indict in my view is un-American. A grand jury should be allowed to be fair and impartial. They shouldn't have people yelling and screaming. — Rudy Giuliani

So street-level FBI agents turned secrets into information, and senior FBI leaders brought that information to reporters, to prosecutors, to federal grand juries, and into the public realm. That was the beginning of the end of Richard Nixon's presidency. Without the FBI, the reporters would have been lost. — Tim Weiner

When was the first I knew something about her in a world where men were sex, but women? - weren't we just supposed to get out of the way when we saw it coming? — Vivian Gornick

In our system, grand juries take every charge, every lie, and they try to sort the truth from the lies, and then they move forward into the system. And that's how the system ought to work. We should respect the secrecy of the grand jury so they can sort through what's true and what's not. And someone is leaking, and if they are leaking from the grand jury investigation, then that's a violation of the law. — Paul Begala

Someone asks three people, a German, a Frenchman, and an Egyptian, what Adam and Eve's nationality was. The German answers, 'Adam and Eve exude good health and vital hygiene: they must be German!' The Frenchman declares, 'Adam and Eve have sublime, erotic bodies: they can only be French!' But the Egyptian concludes, 'Adam and Eve are naked as jaybirds, they don't have enough to buy shoes, and yet they're convinced they live in Paradise: what else could they be but Egyptians? — Franck Thilliez

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies — Zaha Hadid

But it is easier to be generous than to be just, — Edgar Allan Poe

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet. — Cybill Shepherd

It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives. — William Lacy Clay Jr.

If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the mail, grand juries could indict him for sedition and criminal syndicalism, legislative committees could seize his private papers and United States Senators would be clamoring for his deportation that he should be sent back to live with the rest of the terrorists. — Frank I. Cobb

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work. — Jack Welch

Before you leave this earth make sure you reach out and touch one's soul with your spirit in kindness. Make a profound difference in humanity. — Timothy Pina

I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive. — Bernadine Dohrn

I really liked the helicopter pilot in 'Dawn of the Dead', when he gets bitten and comes out of the elevator. That guy was amazing. He did this incredible walk that we didn't even know about until we started shooting. — George A. Romero

It is dangerous to leave written that which is badly written.
A chance word, upon paper, may destroy the world. Watch carefully and erase, while the power is still yours, I say to myself, for all that is put down, once it escapes, may rot its way into a thousand minds, the corn become a black smut, and all libraries, of necessity, be burned to the ground as a consequence.
Only one answer: write carelessly so that nothing that is not green will survive. — William Carlos Williams

The Beatles and Ray Charles were in the same charts together, and that was just called pop music - it wasn't called soul or rock. The best pop music just stands out as something that's just original, and I think it should all be called pop again. — Eliza Doolittle

I think we need an American jobs agenda for the climate challenge which means American renewable grid, more renewable energy. — Martin O'Malley