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.

Charles Stanley

God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

Edwin Louis Cole

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

Blaise Pascal

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Baruch Spinoza

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

Saint Teresa of Avila

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

B. F. Skinner

Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

C. S. Lewis

Obedience is the road to freedom.

Mike Wallace

I feel fulfilled when we've revealed a person.

Gerhard Schroeder

Turkey has fulfilled all its promises. Now it is time we honor ours,

Francis Escudero

We've won. We've fulfilled our pledge, 'Never Again!

David Kyambadde

Our promise will be fulfilled in a fortnight.

Marianne Williamson

Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.

Braylon Edwards

Michigan taught me a lot. It taught me a lot about maturity, accountability, dependability. And there were so many things to meet, having that number, things I would have earned. If I had went to Michigan and just worn 80 and had a good career, I wouldn't have fulfilled what I wanted.

Gail Hillebrand

The legal obligation is fulfilled when they e-mail it to you. But they do not have to have proof that you received it, and they don't have to have proof that you opened it or it got to you in some form.

Donna Kelly

They've been so nurtured, they've been so relaxed, ... They've been so spiritually fulfilled that they just stop in their tracks.

Julia Cameron

There's this mythology that parents are supposed to be parents 24/7 and are supposed to be completely fulfilled by their kids. That's not the case. We need to make our own passions a priority.