Lawrence V Texas Quotes

[Justice] Murphy... who ruled against the state [anti-sodomy] law... didn't see why the Supreme Court had to dwell on the historical background of sodomy laws [before striking them down]. All one really had to know to decide the case, he reasoned, was that Texas and its legions of moralizers let people have sex with animals. End of story. ~ Dale Carpenter

As president, he immediately invited the gay activists who helped elect him to "LGBT" receptions at the White House, where he assured them that crusty Americans could one day be cajoled out of their "worn arguments and old attitudes." "Welcome to your White House," he burbled, promising to support every item on the LGBT agenda: "We've been in office six months now. I suspect that by the time this administration is over, I think you guys will have pretty good feelings about the Obama administration." They do. Should Obama win a second term, the justices he appoints will almost certainly unveil a bogus new constitutional right to gay marriage, discovered within the "penumbras" of Lawrence v. Texas. At which point Obama, drawing upon the faux-pained honesty he has perfected, can regurgitate what he wrote in his memoirs: that he was once on "the wrong side of history" but has now happily come into the light. ~ Phyllis Schlafly

He kept on having to remind himself that probably one day soon she'd trot her little brat ass back to Harrison and into the arms of her sexless fiancé, no matter what hungry little glances she was sending his way, he was not picking up that signal.

Not for a woman from his old life.

No matter how cute she looked or how much the center of his palms itched to slide up those bare legs.

Texas was no saint, far from it, but putting his head back in that familiar noose … he would have to be raving fucking mad. ~ V. Theia

Some ties were hard to break, harder to severe, devastating to forget. ~ V. Theia

Texas sharpshooter fallacy: Imagine that you are driving down a country road in Texas. You see a barn that has six targets painted on it, and a bullet hole at the very center of each target. "Yes sir," says the owner of the barn, "I never miss." "That's right," says his spouse, "there ain't a man in the state of Texas who's more accurate with a paint brush." Got it? He fired the six shots, and then painted the targets around them. ~ John V. Guttag

In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me. ~ Gertrude Lawrence

Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States. ~ Adlai Stevenson

[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare ~ Lawrence Lessig

One of the most effective ways we can influence our sons and daughters is to counsel with them in private interviews. By listening closely, we can discover the desires of their hearts, help them set righteous goals, and also share with them the spiritual impressions that we have received about them. Counseling requires courage. ~ Larry R. Lawrence

Hold up your hands before your eyes. You are looking at the hands of God. ~ Lawrence Kushner

The east is not for me
the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes. ~ D.H. Lawrence

I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid. ~ Jackson Rathbone

You can look after this knight's soul, Father. The sins of the flesh though - they're all mine. ~ Mark Lawrence

Avatar is a watershed movie. We'll always refer to Lawrence of Arabia in the same way. We'll always look at Avatar and say, "That's about as good as it gets." It's an enormous advance, in every way, shape and form, of movie making. ~ William Shatner

I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers. ~ D.H. Lawrence

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied. ~ Lawrence Wright

A man who's got no fear is missing a friend, Jorg, ~ Mark Lawrence

Those young women who want a career ... They can have mine. ~ Mark Lawrence

I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person. I wouldn't want to see me in a movie. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

Give me your bow," I said to the Nuban.
He frowned. "You're going to shoot him?"
The guard laughed, but there wasn't an ounce of humour in the Nuban. He was getting to know me. ~ Mark Lawrence

You constantly felt like you wanted to protect her and that you wanted to save her and that's what made her attractive more so to women than even to men. That's why she's still with us. Marilyn Monroe never offended a woman. ~ Lawrence Schiller

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her. ~ D.H. Lawrence

Puerto Rico was the Republic of Texas on jet-fuel testosterone and psychedelic estrogen. ~ David R. Martin

Sometimes it's a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it's the other way around. ~ Lawrence Block

a negative charge moving backward in time is mathematically equivalent to a positive charge moving forward in time! ~ Lawrence M. Krauss

I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. ~ D.H. Lawrence

If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus ~ Lee Trevino

Death was kind." He drew a sharp breath. "But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child. ~ Mark Lawrence

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our blood ~ D.H. Lawrence

Quite frantically, he longed not to be. ~ D.H. Lawrence

The mind of Sir Isaac Newton, the sass of a rebel and the purse of a street urchin. ~ Lawrence H. Levy

President Bush fell off his mountain bike down on his ranch in Texas. A couple weeks ago, John Kerry fell off his bicycle. See, doesn't this make you miss President Clinton? That guy, he could ride anything without falling off. ~ Jay Leno

I try to avoid eating endangered species, let alone mythical ones. You ~ Lawrence Block

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true. ~ Krista Allen

I thought, My name is Matt and I'm an alcoholic. A woman I know got killed last night. She hired me to keep her from getting killed and I wound up assuring her that she was safe and she believed me. And her killer conned me and I believed him, and she's dead now, and there's nothing I can do about it. And it eats at me and I don't know what to do about that, and there's a bar on every corner and a liquor store on every block, and drinking won't bring her back to life but neither will staying sober, and why the hell do I have to go through this? Why? ~ Lawrence Block

I've got my full rucksack pack and it's spring, I'm going to go Southwest to the dry land, to the long lone land of Texas and Chihuahua and the gay streets of Mexico night, music coming out of doors, girls, wine, weed, wild hats, viva! What does it matter? Like the ants that have nothing to do but dig all day, I have nothing to do but what I want and be kind and remain nevertheless uninfluenced by imaginary judgments and pray for the light. ~ Jack Kerouac

Between Ron Paul and Rick Perry, I think the lesson is don't get sick in Texas. ~ Bill Maher

My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30 miles per hour for 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour. Current events show this is not at all an ambitious project. Want of an elementary knowledge of oil machines baulks me and causes much misdirected effort. I doubt my ability to acquire that knowledge, and feel like a fireman trying to hew out a donkey pump ... ~ Lawrence Hargrave

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life. ~ Lawrence Welk

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. ~ Frederic Lawrence Knowles

It's hard to play the enigmatic prince of romance when the object of your affections gets to watch you shit into the sea twice a day. ~ Mark Lawrence

It's only when the ghastly mob-sleep, the dream helplessness of the mass psyche overcomes him, that he becomes completely base and obscene ~ D.H. Lawrence

I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story. ~ Agyness Deyn

The natives are getting restless. And since it's Texas, they're probably armed. ~ Jennifer Bernard

I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish. ~ Francis Lawrence

Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table. ~ D.H. Lawrence

In every generation until mine, most of humanity lived with the night sky. As people began moving into cities and using more illumination, the sky gradually disappeared. There must be a corresponding loss of wonder without the stars to remind us where we stand in creation. ~ Lawrence Wright

I have been too young to know, and I have been too old to care. It's in that oh so narrow slice between that memories are made. ~ Mark Lawrence

We rode in silence for a while and I wondered if men were the world's leaves. If as we aged the world filled us with its poisons so as old men, filled to the brim with the bitterest gall, we could fall into hell and take it all with us. Perhaps without death the world would choke on its own evils. ~ Mark Lawrence

As my grandmother used to say, if you've got nothing good to say about someone, let's hear it. ~ Lawrence Block