Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

Charles Caleb Colton

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

Charles Caleb Colton

The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

Charles Caleb Colton

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Charles Dickens

You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.

Charles Dickens

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Charles Dickens

The law is an ass, an idiot.

Denny Jackson

The other schools that are interested are Division III, but I know I can play at the Division II level.

Drew Lewis

The possibility that the school may move up to Division I-AA is pretty exciting.

Bill Dreher

While Kohl's is expected to steal market share from Mervyn's, it should be limited to 1 to 2 percent of total division shares.

David Cole

What they're really doing is taking their divisions and shrinking their number in a de facto way.

Derek Jeter

We wrapped up our division at the All-Star break,

Mel Karmazin

We're pleased to see improvements in all segments, ... The company's stations group had record operating results with each of the divisions - radio, outdoor and television - contributing to the results.

Paul Gillis

We're fighting for the division title and this is a good step toward that, but we still have a little work left to do.

Romeo Crennel

We're just not good enough within the division overall.

Keith Primeau

With the new system, we see teams in our division eight times and those rivalries, if they weren't in place, will be resurrected.

Byron Katie

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

Byron Katie

After you've been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought "She doesn't love me," you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: "Oh, I'm not loving myself in this moment."

Bobby Ray Inman

Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly, or through scientific/ethical constraints, restrictions on the kind and amount of research that can be done in those areas.

Aristotle

Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.

Alexander Hamilton

Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

Edmund Husserl

Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.

Edward Sapir

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

Cleveland Abbe

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

Carl Sagan

In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.