Ruth Bader Ginsburg on fortune
Ruth Bader Ginsburg103 quotes“So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.”
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In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg Dissents speak to a future age.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht Fortune, that favors fools.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
Barry GibbBarry Gibb How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
Baron de MontesquieuBaron de Montesquieu Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.
Belle BoydBelle Boyd Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
Ben HarperBen Harper