Hillermann Quotes & Sayings

In one of the ornamented portions of the building, there is a figure of Justice; whereunto the Guide Book says, 'the artist at first contemplated giving more of nudity, but he was warned that the public sentiment in this country would not admit of it, and in his caution he has gone, perhaps, into the opposite extreme.' Poor Justice! she has been made to wear much stranger garments in America than those she pines in, in the Capitol. Let us hope that she has changed her dress-maker since they were fashioned, and that the public sentiment of the country did not cut out the clothes she hides her lovely figure in, just now. — Charles Dickens

The truest test of character is how we behave towards people who can do nothing for us. — James Runcie

Two hands cut down a few trees, but one matchstick clears a forest. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton. — Morley Safer

We live in a world of easy friendships - people here for you when it's easy, 'so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now' when it's not. — Marianne Williamson

Law and society turns this conventional view on its head. "Real law" is law as it is lived in society, and the abstract ideal is itself a human artifact. Many interesting questions follow. How does real law actually operate? How are law and everyday life intertwined? Where does law as abstraction come from, and what purposes does it serve? What can we learn from the disparity between abstract law and real law? And, why is the idealized version of law so resilient even in the face of extensive contrary experience? — Kitty Calavita

Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it. — Bear Bryant

The moment that judgment stops through acceptance of what is, you are free of the mind. — Eckhart Tolle

All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine. — Friedrich Nietzsche

She got up from the bed, knelt beside the bed, and put her forehead down on the covers. She was not practiced at prayer anymore. The only word that came to mind was "please". — Nancy Horan

The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way. — Shirley Maclaine

It is partly because we are so willing to blame others for their mistakes that we are so keen to conceal our own. We — Matthew Syed