What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. ~Harry A. Blackmun
#quotes #harry-a-blackmun #individual

My whole life has been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time. Air Asia is the same people who started it. ~Tony Fernandes
#quotes #tony-fernandes #air-asia

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. ~John Barrasso
#quotes #john-barrasso #government

All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
#quotes #peter-camejo #law #europe #united-states

People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
#quotes #felix-baumgartner #money #mars

Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
#proverbs #kurdish-proverbs #action #prosperity

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
#quotes #norman-lear #family #racism

As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a wow outcome! ~Tom Peters
#quotes #tom-peters #process

Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
#proverbs #african-proverbs

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. ~Nancy E. Turner
#quotes #nancy-e-turner #women #marriage #mother

Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too. ~Kelley Armstrong
#quotes #kelley-armstrong

I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
#quotes #bill-gates #philanthropy #humanity

At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #gambling

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
#quotes #pema-chodron #love #inspiration

As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
#quotes #robert-jarvik #medicine

I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#quotes #gabriel-garcia-marquez #children #nobel-prize

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
#quotes #martin-amis #novels

If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for, someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note, do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today. ~Lisa Jakub
#quotes #lisa-jakub #love #life

The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
#quotes #paul-singer #economy #money

You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #growth

There is a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ~Trevor Dunn
#quotes #trevor-dunn #entertainment #music #new-york

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
#quotes #robert-kiyosaki #strength #compassion

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. ~David Morse
#quotes #david-morse #stories #film

I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
#quotes #tommy-franks #war

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
#quotes #friedrich-schiller #sorrow #happiness