It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
God? Nope." requel's smile told me she was joking around to make this easier for me "santa clause? No again. — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis. — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I have very deep concern about the legacy of the Rehnquist court and its efforts to restrict congressional authority to enact legislation… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
A further aspect I should like to discuss is what I call the practice of infinite escape clauses. I believe we developed… — Sidney W. Fox Copy Share Image
People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight… — Art Donovan Copy Share Image
With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals. — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance. — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause? — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image