Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tullian Tchividjian

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

Trevor Phillips

You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.

Robert E. Lee

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

Robert Wyatt

I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.

Sarah Vowell

Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.

Sara Sheridan

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Samuel Johnson

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

Sarah Orne Jewett

we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.

Vivien Leigh

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

Willa Cather

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.

Wayne Dyer

Examine the labels you apply to yourself. Every label is a boundary or limit you will not let yourself cross.

Samuel Smiles

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

Salvador Dali

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

Walton Goggins

I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

Wangari Maathai

Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are renewable. A lot of land, for example, can be reclaimed from the encroaching deserts.

W. H. Auden

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

Van Jones

No one is above the law, and no one is beneath the law.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.

Roberto Bolano

Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.

Robert Stack

I am very pro law enforcement.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Robert Falcon Scott

It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.

Walt Whitman

O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

Roland Barthes

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

Saint Augustine

The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.

Wilson Mizner

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same

Zach Braff

There's a lot of gray area in the law. Who can say, without a doubt, that I was in the wrong?

Zane Grey

Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.

Yvette Nicole Brown

You have to find a way to not become bitter and live within the parameters of the situation and laugh your way through it…and you hope for a better day for the next generation.

Zac Posen

Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered,

Ty Burrell

I had no real direction at all in my 20's and so I did what a lot of people without direction do: I took an acting class. In one of those first days of the class, I did this weird, silly improv, and it got laughs. It was such a blissful moment. I've never gotten over that love of hearing laughter. As a people pleaser, it's the drug of choice for me.