Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

Charles Caleb Colton

"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

Alanis Morissette

In my life, anyway, anytime that I judge something to be rigidly right or wrong, it comes from fear.

Alanis Morissette

I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.

David Sedaris

They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.

Dave Barry

Happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations...

Carl Sagan

Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.

William Shakespeare

There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.

William Shakespeare

Gently to hear, kindly to judge.

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Globalization is a fact of economic life

C. P. Scott

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

Aidan Chambers

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

Aidan Chambers

We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

Bliss Carman

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Bill Plympton

Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

Paul Clarke

The outcome helps us fulfill our duty of providing maximum returns on our investments to fund the work of the church.

Li Zhaoxing

The position of the U.N. ... must be strengthened so that it can perform its duty of safeguarding peace in a more effective way,

Edith Wharton

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

Charles Buxton

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

Benjamin Franklin

Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.

Kerry Greenwood

I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.

Eric Brown

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

Kathe Kollwitz

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.

John Abizaid

Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.