Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

Charles Caleb Colton

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

Charles Caleb Colton

The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

Charles Caleb Colton

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Charles Dickens

The law is an ass, an idiot.

Charles Dickens

Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.

Charles Dickens

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

Charles Dickens

If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.

Edward Gibbon

Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles?

David Hume

No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion

Cheryl Richardson

Affirmation plus action equals miracles.

Charlie Munger

It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go.

Billy Tauzin

I was treated with a miracle drug, just like Lance Armstrong,

Camille Paglia

The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.

Catherynne M. Valente

Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.

Carl Jung

Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul

Bill Gates

The microprocessor is a miracle.

Charles Stanley

If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.

Al Sharpton

When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

Al Pacino

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

Chris Bauer

You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an impression that's lasting and resonant with one scene.

China Machado

A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.

Edward Hopper

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

Edith Stein

The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

Edith Stein

Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help...