Arlen Brice Quotes

Even officers who don't approve of your lifestyle choices would still take you as backup over Kirkland, or most anyone else. They'd say how you're bad for shaking up with vampires and wereleopards, but in a firefight they'd take your vampire-loving, furry-fucking ass over most anyone else's. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset. ~ Arlen Specter

The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?. ~ Arlen Specter

These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older, by the time they even got a show. Now people come right out of school and sell. ~ Brice Marden

Arlen welcomed the pain, for it meant he was alive when he had no right to be. ~ Peter V. Brett

Gabriel? Are you implying Gabriel had something to with Thompson's death?" Francesca sounded somewhere between outraged and amused. "You can't be serious, Brice."
"He crushed his hand, Francesca. Your Gabriel did that. Crushed his fist with one hand. I watched him do it and he wasn't even straining. I never even saw him come into the room. He was just there. There's something not quite right about him. His eyes. They aren't human. He's not human."
Francesca stared at him wide-eyed. "Not human? As in what? A phantom? A ghost that flies through the air? A gorilla? What? Maybe he lifts weights. Maybe he's strong because he lifts weights and his adrenaline was pumping. What are you saying? ~ Christine Feehan

It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle minuet, with the nominee answering as many questions as he thinks necessary in order to be confirmed. ~ Arlen Specter

For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe. ~ Fanny Brice

The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty important position. ~ Arlen Specter

I ran for president in 1996. ~ Arlen Specter

If you gotta label me, label me proud. ~ Lee Brice

I've made a career of being precise. ~ Arlen Specter

In our social contract, we have provisions that see to it that you take care of people who need some help. ~ Arlen Specter

Stability means respecting precedents. ~ Arlen Specter

We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people. ~ Arlen Specter

Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function. ~ Arlen Specter

mama, you taught me to look pretty but i can't anymore, and i am learning that's okay. i am learning to sharpen my teeth and rule kingdoms, instead. ~ Arlen C.

I'm much more concerned about what artists think. But as you get older you tend to get much more isolated; you're not out in the bar, having long drunken arguments on the benefits of your work vs. someone else's. It's hard to know how people are looking at it, and you don't get much feedback. The written critical stuff seems to be the feedback, but that's hard to interpret. ~ Brice Marden

You think beautiful girls are going to stay in style forever? I should say not! Any minute now they're going to be out! Finished! Then it'll be my turn! ~ Fanny Brice

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend. ~ Arlen Specter

Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much. ~ Arlen Specter

'Never give in' was my mindset. ~ Arlen Specter

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ~ Fanny Brice

There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win. ~ Peter V. Brett

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens. ~ Arlen Specter

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities. ~ Arlen Specter

Don't waste your energy on the ugly. Save it for the beautiful. ~ Harold Arlen

I'm a bad woman, but I'm damn good company. ~ Fanny Brice

I think abstraction is a very rich area. And it is upsetting that people seem to have some fear of it. I'm constantly making these statements about how you should just look at it and react to it on your own; just relax and let go. ~ Brice Marden

Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress? ~ Arlen Specter

When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party. ~ Arlen Specter

A work of art is a renewable source of energy. ~ Brice Marden

As he watched the creatures that had stolen his world for another night, Arlen dreamed of bringing those wards back. He dreamed of traveling beyond Tibbet's Brook, and resolved that he would leave one day, even if it meant spending a night outside.
With the demons. ~ Peter V. Brett

There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day! ~ Arlen Specter

It so happens that I'm pro choice. ~ Arlen Specter

Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that. ~ Brice Marden

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years. ~ Arlen Specter

Well, you know I grew up wanting to be a Clemson Tiger and I ended up being able to play there and I went to school there. ~ Lee Brice

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match. ~ Arlen Specter

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate. ~ Arlen Specter

No law against waiting," I said, "people do it all the time." For once, I didn't say too much, I didn't say too little, I said just what I said and then walked. ~ Fanny Brice

Remember that an artist's life is an intense search for truth. This search takes many forms. Everyone of these forms demands its own disciplines. I learned and adapted to my search. I expect nothing from you. Question the truth of anything you confront. How does it apply to yourself and the trail you are pursuing? ~ Brice Marden

Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt. ~ Brice Marden

In another dimension, the three most popular social ideas of Indust-reality--democracy, socialism, and anarchism--have a family resemblance, despite their differences. All represent what Arlen Riley Wilson has called "Stone Age Backlash." That is, as Imperialism spread, more Stone Age "Partnership Societies" were discovered and they set the intelligentsia to thinking ferociously, as the French say. Democracy, socialism and anarchy all represent various persons' ideas of how to re-create Partnership Society within the context of an expanding technological world. This explains the various attempts to blend them: Democratic Socialism; Mutualist Anarchism; Libertarian (anti-State) Marxist heresies, etc. ~ Robert Anton Wilson

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding. ~ Arlen Specter

I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked. ~ Fanny Brice

When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time. ~ Fanny Brice

There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd. ~ Arlen Specter

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model. ~ Arlen Specter