Kauffeldt Quotes & Sayings

Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop. — Lyle Lovett

I will say something still easier. Take a single flea or louse-since you tempt and mock our God with this talk about curing a lame horse-and if, after combining all the powers and concentrating all the efforts both of your good and all your supporters, you succeed in killing it in the name of free choice, you shall be victorious, your case shall be established, and we too will come at once and worship that god of yours, that wonderful killer of the louse. — Martin Luther

When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise. — Carla Hall

Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair. — Phyllis McGinley

There's no way to tell what will make someone break down in tears. There are some who will cry at the merest melancholy word, and there are some who need the longest, cruelest speech to even dampen one eyelash. There are those who will cry at any sad song but no sad book, and there are those who are immune to the most saddening newspaper articles but will weep for days over a terrible meal. People cry at silence or at violence, in a graveyard or a schoolyard. — Lemony Snicket

You are the only real authority in your life, but you yield that status to so many externals by believing in them, by having been punished or forced into accepting them. — Thomas Daniel Nehrer

I don't want to work a 9-5 job, because 20 hours a day is just too much. — Jarod Kintz

If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner? — William J. Brennan

Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny. — Michael Leunig

By making defense lawyers more central to criminal litigation than they already were and by dramatically enlarging the range of legal claims they could raise on their clients' behalf, Warren's Court increased the gap between rich and poor defendants-and, given the racial distribution of poverty in midcentury America, between black and white defendants as well. Because the time and quality of defense counsel mattered more than before, those defendants who could buy better quality attorneys and pay them to work more hours were more advantaged than before. Relatively speaking, their poorer counterparts grew more disadvantaged. The justice system grew less egalitarian through the Supreme Court's efforts to make it more so.
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We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire,
and so we live a mediocre life,
never bringing to consummation
the primary impulse of our heart. — David Deida

Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee. — Robert Burns