Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Wood

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

James Cook

We were in disbelief that someone would be that ignorant to do something so flagrant in violation of the law,

Stephen Sondheim

I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.

William Kiefer

Our feeling, in talking with people at the school, was disbelief that she would actually be involved in something like this.

Frances Chaney

I?m still in disbelief that we won the big one.

Jerry Jones

You just shake your head in disbelief and, What on earth are they thinking?

Ted Ligety

I was sort of in disbelief that he went off the course.

Carl Jung

I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

Billy Knight

Nothing can explain it. You just sit around in disbelief for a while. And then you think of his family.

David Walker

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

Benjamin Franklin

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

William Shakespeare

Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.

Charles Osgood

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

Barry Gibb

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

Aristotle

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

Elfriede Jelinek

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Brian Herbert

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

Japanese Proverb

It is better to be ignorant than mistaken

Charles Tupper

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Charles Edward Merriam

Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.

Charles Dickens

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

Charles Dickens

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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.

Ban Ki-moon

Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

Kevin Murphy

Respondent's violations are willful, continuing, and egregious and warrant a substantial penalty.

Jose Pertierra

If they are set free, it would be a violation of international laws.

Andrea Dworkin

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

Fred Eckhard

We know that the violations can be controlled.

Hillary Clinton

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.