How Obama approaches judicial selection - and how Republicans respond - now becomes an important story and will remain so until the Senate shuts down judicial confirmations, probably in the summer of 2016 if Senate custom in presidential-election years is followed.
It's so English to hate L. A. I'd like to say I love it, but I don't. It's such a weird place. If it were my choice, I wouldn't spend a day there. Everything shuts at 11. And everyone thinks they're so crazy and wild and liberal, and they're not!
Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.
. . . the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.
When an opinionated person starts to challenge something, his mind shuts out all that could clear up the matter. The argument irritates him, however just it might be, and it seems that he is afraid of discovering the truth.
When God shuts a door, He opens a window.
A good marriage shuts out a very great deal.
There's something final about saying you were married once. It's like saying you were dead once. It shuts them up.
The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.
So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.
He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.
At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.
Love is a lock that linketh noble minds, Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.
One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up.
The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.
But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves a shape distinct from others, is broken, and there is left of all these wrinkles and roughnesses a central oyster of perceptiveness, an enormous eye. How beautiful a street is in winter!
It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.
You know what really shuts up a bully? Learning how to build a pipe-bomb!
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
