Diane Wood quotes

Diane Wood quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.”
-- Diane Wood

Source : "Chicago judge's record rates highly among progressives, colleagues" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2010.

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“It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers.”
-- Diane Wood

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“George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.”
“There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.”
“The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."”

Source : What to Listen for in Music (1939) ch. 2
“Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. Iâ€™d found my happiness.”
“If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds”
“The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.”

Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.
“Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.”
“Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.”
“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
“That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.”

Source : Adlai E. Stevenson (1954). “Call to Greatness”

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