Rimante Lapkaite Quotes & Sayings

Harriet Thomas, a leader of the Women's Peace Party, startled the committee [debating the Espionage Act] when she told them, 'It seems to me that under this act I would be liable to imprisonment for life, or a more drastic penalty, perhaps, if I should say that I would rather my sons be shot for refusing to go out and kill and bear arms against a supposed enemy of this country.' A congressman interrupted her to ask, 'Then you do not honor your citizenship in this country?' Thomas stood her ground. 'I feel I have the right to interpret my loyalty to my own country in my own terms of citizenship, and according to my own conscience, and I do not need any bill to tell me what my of country shall represent. — Ernest Freeberg

They say you can do anything with plastique except play with sparks, but I still treat things that can blow you apart with respect. It can't hurt. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Severability is an important concept in the context of the relations between this Court and Parliament; like 'reading down', it is an instrument of judicial restraint which reduces the danger of producing an overbroad judicial reaction to overbroad legislation. — Albie Sachs

When you love someone without hesitation, nothing can stop it. Well, let's not include the death. — M.F. Moonzajer

Words are so heavy. — Markus Zusak

I am awake but asleep, a ghost floating in a space that has no beginning or end, just an endless hall of grief. — Ronald L. Smith

My helicopter conversion was eye-opening, a case of learning '101 ways to kill yourself without trying'. — Richard De Crespigny