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.

Li Rongmei

We have to go through all the Customs procedures and paperwork so it is not easy to import one.

Agnes Repplier

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

Lynn Flewelling

The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.

Michael Osterholm

To be able to move smallpox simply means to have a device within a writing ink pen that could very easily pass any customs officer, could easily pass through a metal detector, and you could have enough smallpox in there to start the world's worst epidemic.

Nancy Kress

Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

David Liss

I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.

Chelsea Levine

I have always wanted to experience living in another country. I want to learn their customs and the way they do things.

Samuel Freeman Miller

History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

Barton Gellman

Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.

James Freeman Clarke

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

Marian Edelman

The planned execution of Mr. Williams will leave a permanent scar on the conscience of the state of Georgia, on your administration and on our nation.

Marvin Hier

Simon Wiesenthal was the conscience of the Holocaust.

Jim Compton

She has an incredible work ethic. She has become this sort of historical conscience of the council,

Arthur Koestler

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

Winston Churchill

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Yancey Little

She's one of those girls that when she's on, you better watch out. She doesn't have much of a conscience when she's shooting like that.

Matthew Underwood

Some lessons take years to learn, with repeated exposure to the same path sometimes shadowed by the inner conscience of own souls. But eventually we learn, and our journey continues in another direction.

Bible Bible

Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.