Quotes about la
law people
The will of the people is the best law. Ulysses S. Grant
law ability-to-change dangerous
The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it. Robin Wasserman
law effort september-11
But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement. Robert Mueller
language duty english-language
Duty is the sublimest work in the English language. Robert E. Lee
latecomers left
I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left. Robert Wyatt
language metaphorical literal
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification Robert Smithson
language procedures should
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.
language permit music-is
For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond. Robert Schumann
law perspective giving
From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases. Robert Pozen
law long research
You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an incentive to go slowly, be there as long as possible, to over-research things and over-staff.
law bad-laws behinds
Behind every bad law, a deep fear. Sarah Vowell
las-vegas cities lakes
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.
law clubs want
The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble. Sara Sheridan
law being-me metaphysics
Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
law action virtue
He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason. Samuel Johnson
law judging gold
For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.
language pedigree nations
Languages are the pedigree of nations.
law definitions maxims
It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.
law firsts reason
The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered.
law world may
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. Sarah Orne Jewett
law broken needs
Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. Vittorio Alfieri
language found accents
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. Vivien Leigh
latin years jupiter
If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years. Virgil
latin no-hope written
Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC) The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...
law reform banking
One of the reforms to be carried out during the incoming administration is a change in our monetary and banking laws, so as to secure greater elasticity in the forms of currency available for trade and to prevent the limitations of law from operating to increase the embarrassment of a financial panic. William Howard Taft
law government work-out
We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
law administration action
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
law presidential important
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
land rivers water
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. Willa Cather
land littles waste
The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
law judging public-opinion
Judges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should... Warren E. Burger
law leader troops
For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated. Warren Buffett
language accounting
Accounting is the language of business.