Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Burke

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Robert Greene

You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

Thomas Jefferson

As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.

Thomas Jefferson

[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force.

Russ Feingold

We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.

Rush Limbaugh

[Barak] Obama's immigration behavior, executive amnesty, this DREAMer stuff - everything he's doing - is outside the law.

Rush Limbaugh

People always break the law, but for the most part the rule of law triumphed and illegal immigrants were found and deported. The case was not made for them to stay.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Napoleon Hill

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You

Sathya Baba

Desire plus life is man, Life minus desire is God.

Marten Mickos

It's an important goal of ours to have strategic relationships with all the major platform suppliers. Specifically noteworthy, we have a desire to work with IBM. But people say, 'IBM has a database.' We don't see that as an issue.

Bible Bible

Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

Nellie McKay

Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

Caroline Knapp

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

Mark Epstein

To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

Marya Hornbacher

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.

Mikhail Bulgakov

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

Mitt Romney

We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.

Lloyd Alexander

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

Madeleine L'Engle

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

Lucian Freud

The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

Malcolm Campbell

The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.