Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

Jillian Bach

TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.

Jill Sobule

And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls

Jessica Hagedorn

I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.

Jessica Hahn

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.

Jerry Hall

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

Jeremy Corbyn

When legal aid was first introduced in 1949, the late Arthur Skeffington said that the law at that time was like The Ritz, in that those who could afford to pay had access to it, while those who could not did not.

Jeremy Bentham

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

Jeremy Bentham

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Jeremy Bentham

Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes ...

Jeremy Bentham

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

Jeremy Bentham

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Eugene Ionesco

To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying

Eugene H. Peterson

The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.

Estelle Parsons

I earned my share same as everybody. Well, I coulda got killed same as everybody. And I'm wanted by the law same as everybody. I'm a nervous wreck, and that's the truth. I have to take sass from Miss Bonnie Parker all the time. I deserve mine.

Estelle Parsons

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

Esther Dyson

Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.

Esther Hicks

If you look in The Science of Getting Rich, you see no reference whatsoever to the law of attraction.

Esther Hicks

Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what you are in the process of becoming

Esther Hicks

If you've got somebody's aspects in your experience that you don't like, there's only one reason they're there. You keep evoking them with your attention to them. Without knowing about Law of Attraction, you have - through your old habit of observation - achieved vibrational harmony with the parts of them that you do not like, and you keep summoning those parts from them by your constant vibrational offering of them.

Esther Hicks

When you are focused upon something that you desire, then through the Law of Attraction, more and more thoughts about what you desire will be drawn, and you will feel greater positive emotion. You can speed the creation of something simply by giving it more attention—the Law of Attraction takes care of the rest and brings to you the essence of the subject of your thought.

Esther Hicks

You are joy, looking for a way to express. It's not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy-frolicking and eager. That's who you are.

Esther Hicks

There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at world events or something that's happening in your kitchen drawer, broad and important, or narrow and seemingly insignificant, there's potential for connection or disconnection in either case. And it is only the connection or the disconnection that is of really any importance.

Esther Hicks

My path is about Joy.

Esther Hicks

There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it by choosing different thoughts.

Esther Hicks

Whatever you are giving your attention to, already has a vibration of its own, and as you give your attention to it, you include its vibration in your vibration...and then your point of attraction is affected.

Esther Hicks

Today no matter where I'm going, no matter what I'm doing, no matter who I'm doing it with, it is my dominant intent to look for and find things that feel good when I see them, when I hear them, when I smell them, when I taste them, when I touch them. It is my dominant intent to solicit from experience and exaggerate and talk about and revel in the best of what I see around me here and now.

Esther Hicks

When you feel good, you're allowing good. When you don't feel good, you are not allowing good.

Esther Hicks

The Universe does not know if the vibration you are offering is because of what you are imagining, or because of what you are observing.

Esther Hicks

There is nothing that you cannot be, do, or have.