Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

Selma Blair

I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.

Sean M. Carroll

We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not want to be reduced to accepting the strange features of our universe as brute facts.

Sean Hannity

Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!

Scott McClellan

Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials and Border Patrol agents to focus on those who are coming here for the wrong reasons, the criminals and the drug dealers and the terrorists.

Shirin Ebadi

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

Shimon Peres

We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice.

Shelby Lynne

I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.

Sharad Pawar

Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Music is a universal language.

Sebastian Arcelus

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

Sean O'Casey

A waste land lit by holy candles.

Sean O'Casey

Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

Li Ka-shing

Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.

Lesley Stahl

It is actually against the law for a citizen to give money to a terrorist.

Leslie Fiedler

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

Leonard Orr

Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.

Lee Kuan Yew

It is not the practice, now will I allow subversives to get away by insisting that I’ve got to prove everything against them in a court of law or [produce] evidence that will stand up to the strict rules of evidence of a court of law.

Lee Kuan Yew

The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.

Lawrence Durrell

Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.

Lawrence Durrell

Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.

Kurt Huber

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

Kurt Huber

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Kushal Pal Singh

Without land, how can you have development of roads, highways, townships, etc?

Kushal Pal Singh

When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reaction properly. You just can't deal with the reaction by giving him money.

Neil Postman

People of a television culture need “plain language” both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it in some circumstances by law. The Gettysburg Address would probably have been largely incomprehensible to a 1985 audience.

Neil Postman

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?

Marcus Garvey

History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.

Marco Rubio

Even if we didn't have a single person in the USA in violation of immigration laws, we'd still have to do immigration reform, because our legal immigration system is broken. It's not good for anybody.

Marco Rubio

Well, when people talk about interrogating terrorists, they're acting like this is some sort of law enforcement function. Law enforcement is about gathering evidence to take someone to trial, and convict them. Anti-terrorism is about finding out information to prevent a future attack so the same tactics do not apply.

Marco Rubio

I want people to make a lot more than $9 - $9 is not enough. The problem is you can't do that by mandating it in the minimum wage laws. Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.

Marco Rubio

USA Freedom Actdid, however, take away a valuable tool that allowed the National Security Agency and other law - and other intelligence agencies to quickly and rapidly access phone records and match them up with other phone records to see who terrorists have been calling.