The trial court has already said it's a good-faith mistake. I think the Court of Appeals is not going to get involved in this. I think everybody realizes Harris County got hoodwinked as much as the defense did with Park Dietz's testimony.
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Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.
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Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.
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You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.
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He Harris felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness -- the sense that that is where we really belong.
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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once.
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Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times. Some people are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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They have found out more history than they thought they had. They came upon reasons why people pushed to come here: war, famine and religious persecution.
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There's no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
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Art Bonham was one of the most selfless, caring, giving, thoughtful people I have ever known. Art is one of the people everyone should aspire to be like.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
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The most important tactic in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of face.
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Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves -- so how can we know anyone else?
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Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?
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We are delighted with Ford's success in 2005. Although the industry as a whole is growing, trading conditions are still extremely competitive with greater variety of models now on offer.
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The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
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As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own
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Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker ... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.
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It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
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People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
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When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' by
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The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.
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Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.
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These retirements represent a significant loss of institutional knowledge.
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Pull out a Monte Cristo at a dinner party and the political liberal turns into the nicotine fascist.
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People who are often in a hurry imagine they are energetic, when in most cases they are simply inefficient.
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.
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