As an instrument for practical action law is responsive to the wisdom of its time which may be wrong but it carries forward sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion a memory of received values.

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality not only by singing their parts to some of his artists but acting out the smallest details and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

Though every legal task demands this skill it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it in loving detail with an intelligent and responsive class.

More particularly having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty is everything!

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret in my chilled age certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.