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Quotes About Appeals

All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?
~ Katherine Jenkins
When iniquity sits in the judgement seat, good men must take their appeals to a higher court.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
Acting is a community where you come in and out of each other's lives. I'm slightly envious of the Golden Age of Hollywood. It must have been frustrating to be owned by the studio, but it was also like being in a company, working with the same people, and that appeals to me.
~ Katherine Waterston
We've been following Judge Alito's career over the last 15 years, while he's been on the Court of Appeals.
~ Jay Alan Sekulow
If I like it, if I think the character is going to be fun, if I think the story is good and if it appeals to me, then I want to do it.
~ Dwayne Johnson
I am a pretty tough nut, I guess, and I love art as one of the expressions that probably appeals to my softer side that a lot of people would deny I had.
~ Kerry Stokes
Every true-crime thing you see goes in with that kind of ominous music and low lighting, so to be able to talk about these things but not have to feel somber about it and not feel guilty that you're not feeling somber about it - I think that's what appeals to me.
~ Karen Kilgariff
I'm a very methodical cook - it appeals to the logical side of my brain.
~ David Linley
Don't think you can persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
~ Thomas Harris
Leadership is knowing how to distill complexity into a comprehensible message to reach the hearts and minds of the larger world. ~ Using philosophy and history to create emotional appeals to shape broad public sentiment.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way.
~ Kenneth Grahame
The Americans want a surplus stocked up to supply their every whim. And their appeals are much less requests, more demands. Indeed, the phrase might be more aptly put: Demand and Surplus.
~ Geoffrey Wood
The older generation of politicians was deaf to their appeals: to many on the conservative Right and Center state intervention in the economy was still abhorrent, while on the socialist Left it was generally believed that only a post-revolutionary society could plan its economic affairs rationally.
~ Tony Judt
Libertarianism, like Marxism, is a complete explanatory system. It appeals to super-smart engineers and others who never really grow up.
~ George Packer
You can pop a few shopping programs into the computer, look at dozens of suitable dresses, order in what appeals to you.
~ J.D. Robb
Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister—that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain kinds of politician. (Not for nothing is baby-kissing the synonym for public insincerity.)
~ Christopher Hitchens
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
~ Magnus Carlsen
Her streak of independence, which had first brought her to this unfriendly city, was in studied defiance of her smothering appetite for security. If she gave in to those loving appeals she knew she would take root in domestic soil and not look up and out again for another year. In which time, what adventures might have passed her by?
~ Clive Barker
The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.
~ Paul Robeson
Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way. Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
~ Cornelia Funke
Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.
~ leary timothy ii
Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds
~ Eglantyne Jebb
I think the challenges that come with the responsibility of art directing something is something that appeals to me.
~ Alexa Chung