Miops Quotes & Sayings

The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice. — Earl Warren

Most of the time you should use reason, there is no doubt about that because gut often makes us susceptible to lots of different biases, particularly if what you're deciding is something that you really, that expertise can be brought to bear on it, there is a way in which you can align the odds, so then you should really use reason. — Sheena Iyengar

The Word ought to be exposed in the words — Karl Barth

How about this," I suggested. "Instead of feeling that you've blown the day and thinking, 'I'll get back on track tomorrow,' try thinking of each day as a set of four quarters: morning, midday, afternoon, evening. If you blow one quarter, you get back on track for the next quarter. Fail small, not big. — Gretchen Rubin

You'll need someone's help to get it. If people like you, they will be disposed to give you their time and their efforts. And the better the quality of rapport you have with them, the higher the level of their cooperation. — Nicholas Boothman

'The Sopranos,' for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, it would almost be a disadvantage to make a movie like that. Then again, if you made a 'Sopranos' movie, people would be lined around the block to go see it. — Jerry Ferrara

Grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds. — George R R Martin

If I get an obit in the Times, they will say, of course, known to millions as Rumpole. — Leo McKern

You know that thing that people have that tells them they're doing something wrong or pushing too far?
Yeah. I don't have one of those. — Belle Aurora

My home was in darkness and my companions were shadows beckoning to me from a glass — Anna Kavan

SHALL this be a short or a long chapter? - This is a question in which you, gentle reader, have no vote, however much you may be interested in the consequences; just as probably you may (like myself) have nothing to do with the imposing a new tax, excepting the trifling circumstance of being obliged to pay it. More — Walter Scott

We're all pretty proud of it, and we're also standing around, scratching our heads and going, "Wow, this is really good." With the caliber of actors that we have, you really can't got wrong. Not only is it fun, but it's good. It's been really, really great, in that aspect. I totally get what they're doing. — Angie Harmon

Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final integrity of the universe in which we live, and of every cause to which we give our thought, our time and our attention. — Ernest Holmes