James Otis Quotes

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

James Otis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 5, 1725 - May 23, 1783

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It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

Meghan O'Rourke

StrengthTimeTalkingEasyFall

Until politicos take a true stand in defense of marriage by proposing an anti-adultery amendment to the Constitution, stop demonizing gays and lesbians when the one debasing your marriage is the individual in the mirror.

John Ridley

MarriageMirrorConstitutionStand

People can identify as however you want to. Right on. Go for it. But my strategy in this bigger game of life is to not identify as anything.

RuPaul

LifePeopleGameStrategyYouWant

I would rather be with my kids than anybody else.

Louis C. K.

WouldKidsRatherThanAnybodyElse

I think daycare is great for people who have to work two jobs. My problem is with people who are dropping kids off at daycare because they want to go out and spend the day golfing or getting their nails done. You know what I mean? That's not why they invented daycare.

Denis Leary

WorkGreatDayPeopleThinkProblem

When you start talking about abortion and gay rights, people take that seriously and they're passionate about it - on both sides.

Bob Buckhorn

PeopleStartTalkingYouGaySides

I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.

Alice McDermott

WorldLegalPenWriteTwoRomance

I am a performer; that's what I like to do.

Seymour Cassel

I AmLikePerformerAm

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

Tina Brown

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I may have exaggerated a bit when I said that 80 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. What I meant to say was 75 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs.

Richard Krajicek

WomenFatSaidSayTopPigs

CIOs have earned a strategic seat at the table, but now they've got to hold that seat - and the only way they can do that is to converse in the language of business value and business benefits and business outcomes that all align perfectly with the strategic agenda of the company.

Mark V. Hurd

BusinessValueLanguageTableWay

It's important for Oklahoma to have people in a position to make a difference. The only way we can do that is to have people in key places.

Markwayne Mullin

PeopleKeyMake A DifferenceWay

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