Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 26, 1930

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If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

Jeroen Dijsselbloem

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I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of 'The Wind in the Willows,' which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.

John le Carre

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The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and they don't know where I'm going.

John Lithgow

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Political cartoonists get hung up on daily deadlines and the front page. The worst thing you can do is open up the newspaper and ask, 'What's funny about this?'

Jeff MacNelly

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As far as the pros, people pay to come and see us, and I appreciate it because I'm able to take care of my family. So I don't really judge fans about what they say, good or bad.

Metta World Peace

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There are things we control - but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.

Rohit Sharma

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The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

Martin Scorsese

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When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.

Mike Greenberg

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It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.

Dimebag Darrell

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I was so shy, I didn't have friends 'til 16 or something.

Disha Patani

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Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

Deepak Chopra

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