Originalism Constitution Quotes & Sayings

I met Tiger Woods when he was younger. He's amazing - obviously technically, but his mental approach, too. He's really something. — John Wooden

No Victory Without Suffering — J.R.R. Tolkien

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Progressives did not like the antiquated thinking that saw the Constitution as a barrier to government expansion. The "living Constitution" was born. That benign-sounding phrase (coined later) was conjured up to justify changing the Constitution, without formal amendment, from a limit on power to a blank check. What was impermissible to the federal government by an earlier interpretation became permissible once the Constitution was construed as a evolving document. But by that philosophy, the Constitution is no limit on government power at all. A constitutional government that defines its own powers is a contradiction in terms. — Sheldon Richman

Prayer is as necessary as the air, as the blood in our bodies, as anything to keep us alive-to keep us alive to the grace of God. — Mother Teresa

The movers & shakers of the world are not imbued with special powers. Once you realize that, you too can attain your rightful mantle. — Mario J. Lucero

Trying is terrifying because I know I will just fail. But I do want things to be different. I do ... I am so afraid. I'm afraid to hope again. — Nic Sheff

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin for relaxation to his day. He is only earnest to secure the kernels of time, and does not exaggerate the value of the husk.' Think — Timothy Ferriss

And then what would she say? I just told your brother that I love him, and I'm afraid that he hates me? I can't be alone with Turner because I'm afraid he might ravish me? I can't be alone with Turner because I'm afraid I might ravish him. — Julia Quinn

We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us. — Brene Brown

It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail. — Mark Oliphant

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances. — Thomas Frank

Japanese goldfish,
With your gossamer tail,
You are the loveliest creature
I have ever seen."
"Japanese kitten,
Put your tongue back in where it belongs
And go away.
I know exactly what you are thinking. — Paul Gallico

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies. — Gustav Mahler

I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same. — Georges Braque

How could those who wrote the Constitution possibly understand its meaning better than those who had the experience of observing and participating in its operation? It is one thing to rail against the evils of politically unaccountable judges enlarging constitutional rights beyond the ideas and purposes of their adopters; another to explain why morally sustainable claims of equality be held captive to the extraordinary obstacles of Article V or subject to the partial and incomplete understandings of 1789 or 1868. — Jack N. Rakove

We don't really have to make fun of religion - it makes fun of itself. — Bill Maher

It is time ... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers. — Diane Wood