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.

Brian Jacques

Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right." —The law of Badger Lords

Jane D. Hull

The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.

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.

Cardinal Richelieu

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Calvin Coolidge

We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more.

Charles Barkley

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

Stephen King

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

Ray Bradbury

If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.

Norah Jones

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

Myrtle Reed

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

Becca Fitzpatrick

And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.

Margaret Atwood

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

John McPhee

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

Jill Thomas

The request-for-donation letters didn't get out in time.

Oscar Wilde

A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.

Johnny Depp

It was very exciting, ... It's all very new to me, you know? It's an interesting and fascinating process. There's something very pure about it being from the page, into the air, and onto the recording machine. You have that and you combine that with doing scenes where they're going to mesh these voices together, but you're doing a scene with people you've never even met before, which is slightly absurd but kinda great.

Brandon Lee

God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.

Baruch Spinoza

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

Voltaire

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.

Bertrand Russell

Cruelty is in theory a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd

Oliver Goldsmith

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative

Joss Whedon

I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes.

Simon McBurney

Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it.