Passfield White Paper Quotes & Sayings

As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,' 'Aida, Norma,' 'Billy Budd,' 'Peter Grimes,' 'The Crucible,' 'Lost in the Stars,' 'The Marriage of Figaro,' 'The Makropulos Case' and Wagner's 'Ring' cycle. Around 1810, the theme of justice emerged in opera. — Karen DeCrow

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart. — Elizabeth Goudge

I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics. — Robert A. Heinlein

When the path ignites a soul, there's no remaining in place. The foot touches ground, but not for long. — Sanai

She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt! — Stephen King

People never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual grip, the things that are inborn and cannot be taught, are everything. — Thomas Huxley

Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart. — John Boyle O'Reilly

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves. — George Eliot

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest. — Mark Twain

It was the way your lip curled on the word "promise" that makes me uncomfortable. There are only three other people in my life that have ever used that word, and they are all strangers now. — Nikita Gill