Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Moseley Braun

If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary.

C. S. Lewis

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.

Rob Johnson

We have to go by what the law is and when you're 19, you have to go.

Agnes Repplier

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

Aaron Swartz

There is no justice in following unjust laws.

Aasif Mandvi

America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same ... and being afraid is not an excuse.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

C. S. Lewis

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

Paul Clayton

We want our customers leaving our stores feeling better than when they walked in the door, and feeling good about themselves and the choices they've made.

Agnes Repplier

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Aaron Tveit

You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.

Charlie Crist

I'll be honest with you, I don't agree with President Obama about everything. But I've gotten to know him, I've worked with him, and the choice is crystal clear.

Charles Dudley Warner

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

Charles de Lint

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

Charles Simmons

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.

C. S. Lewis

She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

Charles de Gaulle

One does not arrest Voltaire.

Charles Caleb Colton

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

David Allen

Anything that does not belong where it is, is an "open loop" pulling on your attention.

David Rakoff

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

Jane Austen

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

Jane Austen

The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

Jane Austen

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

Janette Turner Hospital

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -