Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Gaddis

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

William Gilmore Simms

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

William Gilmore Simms

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

William Gibson

A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.

Will Durant

The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.

Whitney Cummings

I have so much to be thankful for. I work with the most amazing people, get to make people laugh for a living and have the most amazing friends. But, I am mostly thankful for Spanx.

Sarah Palin

We should create law based on the God of the Bible,

Samuel Rogers

That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.

Samuel P. Huntington

Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems as Arabic-speaking Muslims do in Europe.

Samuel P. Huntington

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

Samuel P. Huntington

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.

Richard M. Nixon

Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of a student, soldier, or police officer-is a precious thing, and the taking of a life can be justified only as a necessary and last resort.

Richard M. Nixon

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

Richard M. Nixon

As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. [No Jew] can be right on the criminal-law issue.

Richard Schickel

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

Rebel Wilson

I never thought I would end up being an actress. I thought I really was going to do serious stuff like law or politics.

Robert Byrd

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

Roald Hoffmann

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

Richard Price

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

Richard Rohr

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

Richard Lamm

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

Tullian Tchividjian

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

Tullian Tchividjian

When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.

Tullian Tchividjian

The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.

Tullian Tchividjian

The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.

Tullian Tchividjian

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

Tupac Shakur

My cellmate's raped on the norm, and passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole getting torn.

Tupac Shakur

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet

Tupac Shakur

Everyday there's more death, and plus I'm doughless. I'm seeing more reasons for me to proceed with thieving.

Trevor Phillips

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

Trey Gowdy

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

Ulysses S. Grant

I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.

Ulysses S. Grant

You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law.