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.

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.

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.

Charles Spurgeon

If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law?

Dennis Prager

America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God.

Ashley Scott

Things were different when I was single though, and I'd go out all the time and dudes would do their thing. i don't really go out much now though.

Jamie Dimon

Our global corporate investment bank competes with Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and a bunch of other banks that are in those businesses. We may have slightly different products or services, but so what? That's always been true in American business.

Bobby Farrelly

I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

Ben Harper

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

Andrew Flintoff

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

Anne Lamott

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

Andy Richter

It's funny, because 'Arrested Development' is tied to Andy Richter in a few different ways. For me personally, after I did Andy Richter, one of the next things I did was a show called 'Quintuplets' for a season for Fox, and this was while 'Arrested Development' was on. I used to go over and hang out on their set.

Sally Quinn

Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

Stephen Spender

One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Fred Felleman

The whale has always flirted with this kind of danger. It was like that old children's cartoon, 'Are you my mother?' Orcas are very social animals, and this was the only way to get his social needs met.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Eckhart Tolle

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

Elif Safak

No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.

Bruce Brown

We need the best education system in the United States. The best system, not the most expensive.

David Bowie

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.