Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Juvenal

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

Baltasar Gracian

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

J. M. Roberts

We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.

Aristotle

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Kwame Scruggs

You have to have order in your lives.

Stephen Jay Gould

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

Stephen Jay Gould

Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its prescribed place in an album; but taxonomy is a fundamental and dynamic science, dedicated to exploring the causes of relationships and similarities among organisms. Classifications are theories about the basis of natural order, not dull catalogues compiled only to avoid chaos.

Stephen Jay Gould

No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Janice Dickinson

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

Ricky Gervais

What will it feel like after you die? Exactly the same as it felt for those billions of years before you were born.

Brian Eno

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

Bram Stoker

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Boss Tweed

The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

Bashar al-Assad

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

Benjamin Disraeli

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

Bill James

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

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?

Elihu Root

I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.

Michael Jackson

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

Katharine Armstrong

The priorities would have remained the same ? first medical care, then law enforcement alert.

Dale Carnegie

There is one all-important law of human conduct. If we obey that law, we shall almost never get into trouble. In fact, that law, if obeyed, will bring us countless friends and constant happiness. But the very instant we break the law, we shall get into endless trouble. The law is this: Always make the other person feel important.