Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity "happen.

Reggie Hayward

They were in great position to kick the field goal and win the game, ... For a second there, I thought about scooping it and trying to score, but my common sense kicked in. It was like, 'Get the ball. Live another down.'

Michael Geist

This has been a common trend for years as file sharers move between services.

Tom Schlesinger

It's more difficult for a governor to have anything resembling a common touch if their personal finances are in a different solar system.

Wilford Kale

It's more common than you'd think, unfortunately. In the waters of Hampton Roads, we probably lose six to eight people a year.

Stan Gehrt

It's very common to see them sitting by a roadside watching traffic go by. It's speculation, but we think they're taking notes mentally, looking for gaps and when they occur. And they probably teach it to their pups.

Stephen Tenby

It's very common in the first year of life, even in the first three or four years of life. It's more serious in the first year of life because small infants can get dehydrated very fast.

Bill Curry

It's very common in the bookselling industry to reference the Times list.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Hjalmar Branting

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

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

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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.

Thomas Jefferson

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism.

Thomas Jefferson

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.

Laura Bush

but we'll see if it's true once we get to New Orleans.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charlize Theron

Beauty is more than skin deep.