Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Helprin

A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.

Mark Helprin

The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love.

Mark Helprin

There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

Mark Haddon

And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that something called Occam's razor is true. And Occam's razor is not a razor that men shave with but a Law, and it says: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. Which is Latin and it means: No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. Which means that a murder victim is usually killed by someone known to them and fairies are made out of paper and you can't talk to someone who is dead.

Marion Nestle

There are loopholes big enough to drive trucks through. And Congress needs to take a look at those laws and make sure that they're much more rigorous.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

Oswald Chambers

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

Oswald Chambers

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

Paul Rudd

I'm a huge David Wain fan. He's one of my best friends now, but he just makes me laugh continually, much to the annoyance of his wife.

Paul Samuelson

Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society. ...Pure land rent is in the nature of a 'surplus' which can be taxed heavily without distorting production incentives or efficiency. A land value tax can be called 'the useful tax on measured land surplus'.

Paul Ryan

Ultimately, the law will collapse under its own weight. Until then, we have to start building a better health care system in its place. And we need to start with a new principle: Put the patient in the driver's seat. That's how we can build a healthy economy.

Paul Harvey

Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we should draw the line. ... Our courts are ... trying to define pornography, yet moral law is very specific to any reader of God's Word.

Pau Gasol

We have a great friendship that I hope will last our entire lives.

Paul Auster

Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.

Paul Auster

Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.

Patrick Leahy

Of course no president, Democratic or Republican - no president - is above the law, as neither are you, nor I, nor anyone.

Patrick Leahy

The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president, but only to the law.

Pat Buchanan

AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature.

Pat Buchanan

(H)er qualifications for the Supreme Court are non-existent. She is not a brilliant jurist, indeed, has never been a judge. She is not a scholar of the law. Researchers are hard-pressed to dig up an opinion. She has not had a brilliant career in politics, the academy, the corporate world or public forum. Were she not a friend of Bush, and female, she would never have even been considered.

Pat Conroy

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

Pat Conroy

Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.

Pat Conroy

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

Pat Conroy

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.

Pat Conroy

Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.

Justin Amash

If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people.

Julia Roberts

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?

Juanes

Joaquin Sabina is one of my favorites. He's like a legend. He's like our Bob Dylan, or our Bruce Springsteen. He's one of the most talented writers of our Latin music.

Judah Friedlander

Tina Fey is really cool. She's so mellow and laid back.

I really missed him. Last weekend I got him some presents because he didn't have Christmas. We are going to go out and spend some time together.

Apollonius of Tyana

I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.

I put 40 years in this, ... It's too late for me to start again.

Ben Roethlisberger

I promised Jerome last year that I would get him here. I didn't promise him that I would win it, but I promised I would get him here.