Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emile Durkheim

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Ellen Terry

The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch the highest levels of mirth.

Oprah Winfrey

A Million Little Pieces' is an experience. And when you finally, reluctantly, turn the last page, you want to meet the man who lived to tell this tale.

A must-win for us. We've got to come out ready to play and play like it's our last game.

All of (the habitats) are gone. Aquarius is the last one used for science.

Hilary Duff

All the responsibility was on me, because I went into the studio without my label saying, 'Work with this person' or 'Sing about this.'

All the property owners met with me last Thursday. The property owners might want to sell so we could consolidate to the corner.

All the proceeds go to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

Braden Looper

All right in a row, too. That was a big test because I thought I could go to that other side of the plate (inside on lefties), which I wasn't able to do much of last season.

And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.

And he's really the last one that's still around,

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

And even I have got to laugh at me.

Edward St Aubyn

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

Edward Tufte

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

Edward Coke

The gladsome light of jurisprudence.

Edward Coke

Law is the safest helmet.

Edward Coke

Common law is common right.

Edward Coke

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.

Edward Coke

Reason is the life of the law.

Edward Coke

For when the law doth give any thing to one, it giveth impliedly whatsoever is necessary for the taking and enjoying of the same.

Edward Coke

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.

Edward Coke

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

Edward Coke

It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.

Edward Coke

The Law ... is perfection of reason.

Edward Coke

A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.

Edward Coke

In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of great use and consequence.

Edward Coke

The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.

Edward Bond

As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

The market potential is quite large but unquantifiable. You could be looking at a market ... one third (the size) of the 35mm movie film market.

Chris Burke

The meet went really well. By and large it was a success, making the long trip worth it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Hermann Weyl

Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.