Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Crosby

We have to stay on it. We can't go into a skid like we were. There's no room for laying back or getting complacent. We have to play this way, and the way we did for two months. We can't think 'we're back.' We're playing the way we should.

We have to start faster. I think that was the problem last week (against the Raiders).

Jesse Ventura

I will criticize President Obama on this level: it's a good thing I'm not president because I would prosecute every person that was involved in that torture. I would prosecute the people that did it. I would prosecute the people that ordered it. Because torture is against the law.

Jesse Ventura

You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

H. P. Lovecraft

All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.

H. P. Lovecraft

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law.

George Herbert

Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.

George Herbert

Better never begin than never make an end.

Jean Baudrillard

Power floats like money, like language, like theory.

Jay Roach

I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.

Jay Nixon

So we have a tremendous amount of water where the two greatest rivers in North America meet. And then all of the tributaries from the various areas come in there also. It's also highly populated. So we're working a number of water rescues. We're working extremely hard to keep people safe and make sure that we're keeping the rule of law and keep people warm. It's been pretty cold.

Jay Leno

Congress voted for tougher laws on corporations. So now when a corporation buys a senator, they need a receipt.

Jay Leno

President James Garfield could write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Jay Leno

President Obama's been reaching out to Iran, reaching out to Cuba, reaching out to Latin America. The only place he can't seem to be able to reach out to: Texas. ... Despite Governor Rick Perry talking about how Texas could secede from the Union if it wanted to, 75 per cent of the people who live there want to stay in the United States. Of course they want to stay. I mean, after spending all that time and effort sneaking across the border to get here, why would they want to leave?

Byron White

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

Byron White

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

Byron White

The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy, and hence invalidates the laws of the many States that still make such conduct illegal, and have done so for a very long time.... Respondent would have us announce, as the Court of Appeals did, a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.

Buzz Aldrin

The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up of a colony/settlement, I call it a 'permanence'.

Bryan Cranston

I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.

James Dyson

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

Jane Porter

Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness.

Ethan Allen

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

Ernst Mach

To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as good and just as bad as it is. We know as much about the soul as we do of matter.

Errol Morris

Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade...

Ernest Dowson

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

Erik Paulsen

Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.

Gary Bauer

Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

Garet Garrett

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

Francois Rabelais

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Francois Rabelais

To laugh is proper to man.

George Carman

Law is a very addictive profession.

Christine Quinn

Cliven Bundy is breaking the law. He's breaking the law and he wants all of us to pay for his cattle while he's ranting about people who are part of social welfare programs.

Christina Romer

What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.