Spoliation Claim Quotes & Sayings

I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand. — Philip Levine

She bought a poster of the Beatles and tacked it on the wall above her bed. On days when she was feeling strong her favorite was John, and on days when she was feeling weak her favorite was George, perhaps because there was a vulnerability to John that she was afraid to indulge without an armor of her own vitality around her. — Kevin Brockmeier

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve. — Victor LaValle

My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be. — Frank Herbert

Ah. I smiled. I'm not really here to keep you from freaking out. I'm here to be with you while you freak out, or grieve or laugh or suffer or sing. It is a ministry of presence. It is showing up with a loving heart. — Kate Braestrup

Justice is horrible. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

It doesn't help that your idiom is all at once playful, esoteric, and, at times, bemusing. — Meghan Ciana Doidge

Dare to love yourself — Aberjhani

It was hard to watch, the business side is so big in the game. — Mats Sundin

The cook didn't respond, keeping his bony beige headcrest down over his work as four massive hands worked the pots and pans. "I'll miss these great conversations," Kanan added. Drakka looked up long enough to growl, a creepy sound made creepier by the way the fleshy sac beneath his mouth fluttered. Then he returned to his cooking. — John Jackson Miller

The true test is, whether the object be of a local character, and local use; or, whether it be of general benefit to the states. If it be purely local, congress cannot constitutionally appropriate money for the object. But, if the benefit be general, it matters not, whether in point of locality it be in one state, or several; whether it be of large, or of small extent. — Joseph Story