Famous Quotes & Sayings

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

We're going for big laughs and big talk value.

We're going by the law and the mother's wishes and the wishes of the child.

We're shooting more consistently than we were last year. We just have to keep working on it.

We're set up for a nice little rally, however, how long it can last is unclear.

We're looking at trains as a primary way to move large means of people.

We're excited. And we're still mad we lost on Saturday. It reminds me a lot of last year (when the Vikings lost to Centennial then went undefeated the rest of the way). We want to do that again.

Ric Keller

While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation's opinion or trample its wishes under foot.

Alexis de Tocqueville

So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.

Alexis de Tocqueville

There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law.

Alexis de Tocqueville

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.

Alexis de Tocqueville

A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes to his own; ... This abnegation of his own opinion, and this implicit deference to the opinion of his forefathers, which are common to the English and American lawyer, this servitude of thought which he is obliged to profess, necessarily give him more timid habits and more conservative inclinations in England and America than in France.

Alexis de Tocqueville

When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

Alexandra Roach

Be positive and laugh at everything.

Alexandre Dumas

God is always the last resource.

Alexandre Dumas

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

Italo Calvino

I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

Italo Calvino

I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.

Kumail Nanjiani

Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.

Albert Schweitzer

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

Man-hours, especially in the last two quarters, have jumped dramatically. Our position has always been to have enough work here so we don't have to travel to find work. Well, we are in that situation now.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Lucas did a nice job. He started out not looking so good, but got stronger and stronger. He got most of his strikeouts late in the game.

Make sure you smile and laugh tonight because that's what Kirby would want, and that's why we loved him.

Macquarie is stalling for time. There's always the opportunity to raise the offer later on.

Making the run that we made, we're going into the season with a different attitude. We want to win our last game, that's the mindset here.

made that request last week in his public statements very clearly.

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

Level 1 is being totally independent, and we know they're not going to be there in large numbers for a while. But they're already getting to level 2, which means they can get into and lead the fight.

Thomas Jefferson

Let what will be said or done, preserve your sang froid immovably, and to every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language