Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Jay Gould

A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces representing constraints of inheritance and development. Vavilov placed too much emphasis on internal constraints and downgraded the power of selection. But Western Darwinians have erred equally in practically ignoring (while acknowledging in theory) the limits placed on selection by structure and development what Vavilov and the older biologists would have called "laws of form.

With Law back, they've started to play better basketball, and that has me worried too.

Robert Kiyosaki

Whatever you want in life, you've got to give away first.

Robert Kiyosaki

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‘Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time’.

There's some interesting questions of law that I think time will answer.

There's no established law on this issue. It's very likely this will be a precedent-setting case.

J. J. Johnson

There's lawsuits threatened on everything we do. You got to vote what you think is right for the kids. If somebody wants to sue you, let them sue.

The resolution does not make it law. It also has to be certified by the secretary of state, which they haven't done yet. I think they (Orr) are having second thoughts about it, and they should.

Irwin Redlener

The translation of this is martial law in the United States,

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

The priorities would have remained the same ? first medical care, then law enforcement alert.

Dale Carnegie

There is one all-important law of human conduct. If we obey that law, we shall almost never get into trouble. In fact, that law, if obeyed, will bring us countless friends and constant happiness. But the very instant we break the law, we shall get into endless trouble. The law is this: Always make the other person feel important.

Claude Chabrol

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law

Claude Debussy

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Claude Debussy

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Claire McCaskill

I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.

Daniel Quinn

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.

Cynthia McKinney

The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.

Cynthia McKinney

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

Duncan Hunter

In 2006, the Secure Fence Act was signed into law, requiring the Department of Homeland Security to build upward of 700 miles of double layered fencing along the U. S-Mexico border. While the Obama administration is quick to state that the targets have been met, only a small fraction - in fact, less than 40 miles - of the newly implemented infrastructure is double-layered.

Douglas Hofstadter

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

Donald Trump

I assume I can give you a letter from a big law firm saying that we're under audit.

Adolf Hitler

Even a superficial glance is sufficient to show that all the innumerable forms in which the life-urge of Nature manifests itself are subject to a fundamental law - one may call it an iron law of Nature - which compels the various species to keep within the definite limits of their own life-forms when propagating and multiplying their kind.

Adolf Hitler

A decision by the Fuhrer in the express form of a law or a decree may not be scrutinized by a judge. In addition, the judge is bound by any other decision of the Fuhrer.

Adolf Hitler

The parliamentary principle of vesting legislative power in the decision of the majority rejects the authority of the individual and puts a numerical quota of anonymous heads in its place. In doing so it contradicts the aristocratic principle, which is a fundamental law of nature.

Adolf Hitler

Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

Adolf Hitler

[It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be to rise in revolt against heaven.

Adolf Hitler

I will employ my strength for the welfare of the German people, protect the Constitution and laws of the German people, conscientiously discharge the duties imposed on me, and conduct my affairs of office impartially and with justice to everyone,

Adolf Hitler

I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer.

Adolf Hitler

Without law and order our nation cannot survive.

Adolf Hitler

Only force rules. Force is the first law

Adam Savage

Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!

Adam Clarke

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.