Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin America, yes, But that's not all that different in inspiration from that of America, or of Europe. One must go further. You don't even have to go too far in terms of geography - you can start with the Native Americans and listen to their poetry.

Edward Gibbon

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

Edward Gibbon

These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour.

Edward Gibbon

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

Edward Gibbon

A Locrian, who proposed any new law, stood forth in the assembly of the people with a cord round his neck, and if the law was rejected, the innovator was instantly strangled.

Edward Gibbon

The science of the laws is the slow growth of time and experience.

Earl Warren

Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

Earl Warren

The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

David Hume

The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity

David Brainerd

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

Ben Stiller

It's great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.

Barney Frank

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

August Wilson

I don't go by what the law say. The law's liable to say anything. I go by if it's right or not. It don't matter what the law say. I take and look at it for myself.

Audre Lorde

I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter.

Frederic Bastiat

The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from its proper function, but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose. The law has become a tool for every kind of greed. Instead of preventing crime, the law itself is guilty of the abuses it is supposed to punish. If this is true, it is a serious matter, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.

Frederic Bastiat

It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds.

Frederic Bastiat

As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose--that it may violate property instead of protecting it--then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder.

Denzel Washington

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

Denis Norden

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

Dee Hock

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

Lorraine Bracco

You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.

Michael Specter

Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day.

Julie Gerberding

The potential for infecting large numbers of people is great,

We are proud of what we've done because nobody has done what we've done at Lake Fenton for a long time.

We're in significantly better shape than we were last year,

We're in last place now in the league. Twenty-nine years we've never been in this situation in this league at 2-6, I know that. Right now, we're just not very good.

Eddie Jordan

We started as if we were on a qualifying lap but we got a puncture near the end but we got it home.

Mark Barrowcliffe

I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning to see where all those Latin American magical realists get their inspiration from: they don't need to make anything up; they just write down what's around them.

Louis C. K.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

Kurt Vonnegut

People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Bill Nighy

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.