New Rule: Gay marriage won't lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got… — Bill Maher 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
Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified… — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
A dependent clause (a sentence fragment set off by commas, dontcha know) helps you explore your story by moving you deeper into… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits… — Antonin Scalia 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
Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very 'risk… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most… — Bill Moyers 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
What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A license cannot be revoked because a man is red-headed or because he was divorced, except for a calling, if such there… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are… — Milan Kundera 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 am concerned that Donald Trump walks into the White House a walking conflict of interest in violation of the emoluments clause… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Who in their right mind ever thought that the birth of a child to an illegal immigrant converted to citizenship? A lot… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end,… — Robert Graves 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
Your children are not the same. Not at all. Each one is unique. There are no "boiler plate" clauses that fit all… — Bob Benson Copy Share Image
Our Supreme Court has lifted the practice of buying legislation to the level of a constitutional principle by repeatedly protecting corporate spending… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face… — Frank I. Cobb Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It's never been integral to the story that I take my clothes off. I've always had clauses in my contracts saying no… — Sarah Jessica Parker 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
Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is,… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
She told me that all the girls in Annezin prayed every night for the war to end and for the English to… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think,… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from… — Donna Tartt 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
I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic… — Charisma Carpenter Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That… — Michelle Huneven 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