Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Joubert

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

[God] never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness which He has designed, and which will not end in the greatest amount of good and glory to those who become the recipients of His law and ordinances.

Kristin Chenoweth

Laughter is life-giving. It makes you breathe.

Kristin Scott Thomas

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I'm a late developer.

Klaus Kinski

I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy.

Klaus Kinski

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

Knut Hamsun

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Murray Rothbard

Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With positivism, there is a tendency to leap into ad hoc economic theory.

Murray Rothbard

One of the most important features of our economic resources is their scarcity: land, labor, and capital goods factors are all scarce, and may all be put to various possible uses. The free market uses them 'productively' because the producers are guided, on the market, to produce what the consumers most need: automobiles, for example, rather than buggies.

Murray Rothbard

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

Murray Rothbard

Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... Because a minimum wage, of course, does not guarantee any worker's employment; it only prohibits, by force of law, anyone from being hired at the wage which would pay his employer to hire him.

Murray Rothbard

Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.

Myles Munroe

Principles are laws that are established by the creator or the manufacturer by which a product functions. If you violate those laws, then you produce malfunction, which is what we call failure. If you obey those laws and align yourself with those laws, then you are guaranteed success.

Myles Munroe

God designed the world in such a way that everything functions on principles. Principles are eternal laws established and inherent in creation that make creation function.

Myles Munroe

We need people in the areas that create laws and policies who are filled with the Kingdom so that those laws can become the fabric of our social development.

Myles Munroe

All societies establish laws that become norms. Those norms create the environment that incubates society. So, when you implement the laws of God in society, they produce a culture of heaven.

Myles Munroe

Success is not a pursuit...but the result of obedience to the Divien and Natural laws of Life established by the Creator

Myles Munroe

The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion.

Myles Munroe

Divine Law is not subject nor affected by the majority vote of humanity

Mojo Nixon

I thought I was the last American weirdo then I met Chris Chandler.

Moliere

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

Moliere

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

Mohsin Hamid

Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

Molly Ivins

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Milton Berle

Laughter is the best medicine in the world.

Milton Berle

Most attorneys practice law because it gives them a grand and glorious feeling. You give them a grand - and they feel glorious.

Milton Friedman

We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's the same with oil or gas.

Milton Friedman

The rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance on the rule of law clearly played a major role in transforming Western society from a world in which the ordinary citizen was literally subject to the arbitrary will of his master to a world in which the ordinary citizen could regard himself as his own master

Milton Friedman

When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something."

Milton Friedman

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Mike DeWine

To add to the confusion, some of the court's decisions involved multiple concurrences and dissents, making it hard even for lawyers and judges to figure out what the law is and why.

Mike Birbiglia

Essentially, retweets are like laughs.