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law knowing shy
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 Dickens
law justice water
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
law justice criminals
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
law land tree
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.
law firsts revolution
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.
law genius talent
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
law would-be rays
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.
law principles bleak-house
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
law idiot ass
The law is an ass, an idiot.
lions
The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it. Charles Spurgeon
lions hunters historian
There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe
lions care proud
Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are! William Shakespeare
lions may
I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion. August Wilson
lions safe witch
He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) C. S. Lewis
lions assuming caught
For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard. Edgar Rice Burroughs
lions summer-nights midsummer
A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.
lions prologue
Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion
lions
Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.
oppression submit
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
oppression individual states
Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression. Andrew Bernstein
oppression
Oppression breeds the power to oppose it. Andrew Solomon
oppression cruelty interfere
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. Anna Sewell
oppression origin patience preserved qualities
Patience is one of those "feminine" qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation. Simone Beauvoir
oppression prelude regimes
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression. Jonathan Sacks
oppression abandonment
To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
oppression terrorism fascism
Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression. Harry Belafonte
oppression spoke standing time
It was a time of oppression and you spoke up -- and we won. Without you, I wouldn't be standing up here either. Terrence McNally
oxygen use muscles
Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate. August Krogh
oxygen regulation trustworthy
The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy evidence of any regulation of this process on the part of the organism.
oxygen bunnies hunger
If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny) Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck) Deb Caletti
oxygen hyperbole johnson
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life. Bill Moyers
oxygen water brain
A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal... Bertrand Russell
oxygen flames people
The world of derivatives is full of holes that very few people are really aware of. It's like hydrogen and oxygen sitting on the corner waiting for a little flame. Charlie Munger
oxford black clubs
Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them. Anthony Trollope
oxford small town
What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city. Samantha Shannon
oxygen friendliness
Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche. Jane Fonda