Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boss Tweed

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

Barbara Jordan

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

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.

Baruch Spinoza

Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.

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.

Calvin Coolidge

The prohibition amendment to the Constitution requires the Congress. and the President to provide adequate laws to prevent its violation. It is my duty to enforce such laws.To prevent smuggling, the Coast Card should be greatly strengthened, and a supply of swift power boats should be provided. The major sources of production should be rigidly regulated, and every effort should be made to suppress interstate traffic... It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation.

Alan Dershowitz

A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

Brigham Young

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

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.

Brian Jacques

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Diane Cilento

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

Artur Davis

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

Brian Van Holt

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

Eckhart Tolle

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Rush Limbaugh

The best way to create and bring dependent voters in is to bring people that don't have much education and therefore do not have many skills and therefore are not as capable as others of providing for themselves. That's the gold standard in immigration, if you're a Democrat in 2016, 2002, 2000, as long as this current debate has been raging, that's their objective.

Stephen Hawking

Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn

Roy H. Williams

If you want the truth to prevail, you must cause people to realize the truth. This requires much more skill than is required to simply tell it.

Sugata Mitra

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

Neil Abercrombie

We are talking about the survival of this country.

Dan Aykroyd

My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.

Edward Norton

We must realize that nature is absolutely essential for our survival, and we must act on that premise now.

Deepak Chopra

The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

Peter Benchley

Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

Jason Momoa

A wolf is not bad for eating and tearing apart something, if it's for survival. It doesn't do it to be menacing.

Carl Sagan

If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?

Herbert Spencer

It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Jeremy Rifkin

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.