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.

Dorothy L. Sayers

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

David Letterman

I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value.

David Palmer

My vision is to make touch positive social value in our culture.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

Matt Damon

As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel will have some social value.

Gloria Steinem

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

Emily Post

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

Louis D. Brandeis

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

Ellen Goodman

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Diana Gabaldon

She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition.

Marie Dressler

That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

Jean de La Fontaine

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

Ernst Zundel

The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

Leo Buscaglia

The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

Joseph Campbell

People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.

Heather O'Neill

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

Phyllis Bottome

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.