Judge Frankfurter Quotes & Sayings

In an age of casual, cynical, indifferent routine, among people who held themselves as if they were not flesh, but meat-Dagny's bearing seemed almost indecent, because this was the way a woman would have faced a ballroom centuries ago, when the act of displaying one's half-naked body for the admiration of men was an act of daring, when it had meaning, and but one meaning, acknowledged by all as a high adventure. And this-thought Mrs. Taggart, smiling-was the girl she had believed to be devoid of sexual capacity. She felt an immense relief, and a touch of amusement at the thought that a discovery of this kind should make her feel relieved. The relief lasted only for a few hours. At the end of the evening, she saw Dagny in a corner of the ballroom, sitting on a balustrade as if it were a fence rail, her legs dangling under the chiffon skirt as if she were dressed in slacks. She was talking to a couple of helpless young men, her face contemptuously empty. — Ayn Rand

I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.' — Jesse Ventura

It's easy to fall in love among the winding cobblestone streets and snow-covered castles of Prague, but is it a good idea? — Dana Newman

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

On the eighth day, the forty-year-old hobo said to Billy: "This ain't bad. I can be comfortable anywhere."
"You can?" said Billy.
On the ninth day the hobo died. So it goes. His last words were: "You think this is bad? This ain't bad. — Kurt Vonnegut

What inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet. — Jillian Barberie

Even then I knew that happiness was something in which to plunge headlong, and damn the torpedoes — Meg Rosoff

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose ... it'll be much harder to detect. — George Carlin

It is the experience of love that enables us to change. — Steven Furtick

The boys and girls in the clique. The awful names that they stick. You're never gonna fit in much kid, but it you're troubled and hurt, what you've got under your shirt will make them pay for the things that they did! — Gerard Way

Your name isn't Sniffles?" Ewan pretended to be surprised. — C.J. Milbrandt

The roar of the sea may be joyous to a rejoicing spirit, but to the son of sorrow the wide, wide ocean is even more forlorn than the wide, wide world. This is not our rest, and the restless billows tell us so. There is a land where there is no more sea
our faces are steadfastly set towards it; we are going to the place of which the Lord hath spoken. Till then, we cast our sorrows on the Lord who trod the sea of old, and who maketh a way for his people through the depths thereof. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon