Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Liar, n.: A lawyer with a roving commission.

Tom DeLay

Let me be very, very clear, ... I have done nothing wrong. I have violated no law, no regulation, no rule of the House. I have done nothing unlawful, unethical or, I might add, unprecedented.

Vanessa Redgrave

Serbia has no right, under national or international law, to Kosovo.

Laura Fisher

So far, the law is working as intended.

Mickey Mantle

Mr. Mantle, do you have any observations with reference to the application of antitrust laws to baseball?

John Dingell

Mr. Pitt got in trouble. If he is not doing the job, sees to it that security laws are properly enforced, it's time for him to depart.

Lisa Gross

One reason the waiver was refused was because it's state law. And because they didn't want to set a precedent.

William Blake

One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression

Charles Potter

No one owns a parking spot; it's the public's right to use them, ... This law will lead to more regular enforcement of the problem. Now, using the littering law is a stretch.

Justin Welby

Let's be clear, I'm one of the thicker bishops in the Church of England.

Michael Leunig

Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable!

Frank Keating

I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too much to his lawyer and not enough to his heart.

David Clohessy

Thousands of victims haven't reported and dozens of bishops aren't telling all they know. They have no incentive to.

Eugene Kennedy

As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition.

Eugene Kennedy

Francis seems familiar because Catholics have already known him in the Vatican II priests who have been their pastors and sacramental ministers over the years since that council brought new life to an old church. Catholics have known him in the bishops and priests who brought the spirit of the council to their dioceses and parishes.

Roger Mahony

We bishops got ourselves and the church into this problem, so I can understand that, and I have no problem with that whatsoever. None.

Brigham Young

Emma took the revelation, on polygamy supposed she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it, and he had handed the revelation to Bishop Whitney, and he wrote it all off... She went to the fireplace and put it in, and put a candle under it and burnt it, and she thought that was the end of it, and she will be damned as sure as she is a living woman. Joseph used to say that he would have her hereafter, if he had to go to hell for her, and he will have to go to hell for her as sure as he ever gets her.

Richard G. Scott

Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it.

Mahatma Gandhi

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

Laura Hillenbrand

When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.

Louis Zamperini

If you can take it, you can make it.

Stephen King

I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.

Sri Aurobindo

This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.

Rick Yancey

Because we will die, but at least we will die unbroken.