Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryant H. McGill

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

Jane Austen

I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

Carl Davis

There are no happy times at Happy Times .

Woody Allen

The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.

Brian Weiss

Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.

Charles Bukowski

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

Sydney Smith

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Sydney Smith

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

David McKenzie

We've still got a long way to go ... but I'm happy with my position at this point.

E. Hicks

See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money!

Aretha Franklin

On the sly, scoping for love.

Bruce Lee

Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form.

Jerry Garcia

What a long strange trip it's been.

Winston Churchill

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

Yann Martel

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.

Oskar Kokoschka

All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

Karen Armstrong

From the Rabbis of the early Talmudic age I learned that there is never a last word on God. There's, you always continue to question. Even God himself could be questioned and you can keep arguing with one another and there will be no end to this conversation about the divine because no human expression of God can be ultimate.

Billy Zane

Celebrity and charity have been bedfellows for many years. The key is to try and choose practical, sound and effective ones. There is no shortage of solicitation for endorsement, so you have to really know what you're getting behind and be passionate about it. In this case, aside from just being a spokesperson, they're benefiting a form of expression that is dear to me, painting.

Boss Tweed

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

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.

Claude Chabrol

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law

Claude Debussy

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Claude Debussy

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Claire McCaskill

I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.