Mehrtash Olson Quotes & Sayings

In my legal practice, I have seen certain Federal judges controlled or influenced by large corporations ... , by large law firms ... on more than one occasion(, and) ... by special interests ... (some) ought to be thrown right off the bench because they are breaking every code of conduct ... — Orrin Hatch

The kingdom is a spirit-like thing, and cannot be got by active doing. — Lao-Tzu

And history s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their presence. — Robert Fisk

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag. — Chet Raymo

Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today. — Hal Stratton

Presidents rise and fall according to how they handle a crisis - an invasion, a depression, a massive oil spill - but there's no glory in prevention, in foreseeing and forestalling and keeping the bad from getting worse. We know what happened when each president presided; they are often just as proud of what didn't happen. — Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore. — Luis Walter Alvarez

The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward. — John Hancock

It just feels good to say we're the best team in the world, with the best player in the world. — Klay Thompson

No, memory is true as long as you do not set it, as long as it is not enclosed in a form. — Italo Calvino

I may have more money than you, but money doesn't make the difference. If
there is any difference between you and me, it may simply be that I get up and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day. If you learn anything from me, this is the best advice I can give you. — Warren Buffett

Regret is a form of punishment itself. — Nouman Ali Khan

A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory. — William John Macquorn Rankine

If the human isn't responsible for their role in the horse human relationship, horses just don't get along very well. So that's why I say it's all about the human meeting the bill to fit the horse in any given situation. But don't expect the horse to always fit the human. — Buck Brannaman

People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two, maybe. And the other one is wrong. — David Fincher