Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Liar, n.: A lawyer with a roving commission.

Tom DeLay

Let me be very, very clear, ... I have done nothing wrong. I have violated no law, no regulation, no rule of the House. I have done nothing unlawful, unethical or, I might add, unprecedented.

Vanessa Redgrave

Serbia has no right, under national or international law, to Kosovo.

Laura Fisher

So far, the law is working as intended.

Mickey Mantle

Mr. Mantle, do you have any observations with reference to the application of antitrust laws to baseball?

John Dingell

Mr. Pitt got in trouble. If he is not doing the job, sees to it that security laws are properly enforced, it's time for him to depart.

Lisa Gross

One reason the waiver was refused was because it's state law. And because they didn't want to set a precedent.

William Blake

One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression

Charles Potter

No one owns a parking spot; it's the public's right to use them, ... This law will lead to more regular enforcement of the problem. Now, using the littering law is a stretch.

Charles Spurgeon

Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.

Charles Spurgeon

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

Charles Spurgeon

Defend the Bible? I'd sooner defend a lion. You don't defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.

Dennis Hastert

There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.

Eliphas Levi

Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.

Michael Pitts

I wish there were . . . tigers and lions and elephants. Hopefully, maybe in the future, they'll have those.

Greg Davis

I don't know enough about Roy's numbers to be disappointed. I don't watch enough Lions games. I think Roy will be an All-Pro. If he stays healthy, he'll be an All-Pro before he's through.

Charles Spurgeon

The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.

August Wilson

I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion.

Charles Caleb Colton

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

Andrew Solomon

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

Anna Sewell

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Andrew Bernstein

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

Simone Beauvoir

Patience is one of those "feminine" qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

Terrence McNally

It was a time of oppression and you spoke up -- and we won. Without you, I wouldn't be standing up here either.

Harry Belafonte

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

Ken Wilber

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

David Bowie

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

August Krogh

Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.

August Krogh

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.

Deb Caletti

If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny) Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)

Charlie Munger

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.

Bill Moyers

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Bertrand Russell

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...

Anthony Trollope

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.

Bill Hicks

It's you people dying from nothing that are screwed. I got all sorts of neat gadgets waiting for me...oxygen tent, iron lung.