Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state.

John Lescroart

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

Hugh Dillon

It's just totally organic ... It's the essence of rock 'n' roll, ... It's got more to do with the songwriting than with the show.

Astro Teller

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

Robert Gruber

It's a question of whose ox is being gored. But in essence it is up to the US importer now.

Stephen Jay Gould

Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should and must be ... We inhabit a world of human differences and predilections, but the extrapolation of these facts to theories of rigid limits is ideology.

George R. R. Martin

When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel.

Burning Spear

I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.

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.

Doug Stanhope

You're born absolutely free except for laws of nature, if you drink you get drunk, that's a law, if you get old you die, that's a law too; if you sit on a tack you will bleed from the ass, these are the only laws that you're born with.

Claude Bernard

Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.

Diogenes

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

Dick Francis

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

Dick Gregory

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

Desmond Tutu

Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny.

Anthony Horowitz

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

Michael Lewis

It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.

Jason Portz

He's always a person that people are trying to pitch around. He's his own worst enemy at times. When he can focus on doing the little things in the game, he's a terrific player. He's been very solid for us and his leadership has been tremendous.

Voltaire

This is no time to be making new enemies.

Pervez Musharraf

the enemy is trying to intimidate us by hurling threats of war. We will not be intimidated.

Henry A. Kissinger

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Leslie Marmon Silko

Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.

Emile M. Cioran

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.