Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Cook

I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin'. I never had it, so I'd had it, as far as being a judge was concerned... I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

Peter Cook

One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

All just laws condemn cruelty.

Piers Anthony

Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.

Pierre Trudeau

What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.

Phyllis Diller

Absolutely nothing was happening in my marriage. I nicknamed my waterbed, Lake Placid!

Phyllis Bottome

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

Philip Pullman

Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive.

Rachel Dratch

If it gets laughs, it's funny.

Rabindranath Tagore

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.

Rabindranath Tagore

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

If you want peace, prepare for the war.

Queen Rania of Jordan

I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.

Pythagoras

Evolution is the Law of Life Number is the Law of the Universe Unity is the Law of God

Pythagoras

Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like.

Plato

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

Maggie Stiefvater

at last no one decided And no one knocked And no one jumped up And no one opened And there stood no one And no one entered And no one said: welcome And no one answered: at last

Maggie Stiefvater

I felt a tickle on my skin; it took me a moment to realize that Cole was driving his die-cast Mustang up my arm. He was laughing to himself, hushed and infectious, as if there was still any reason to be quite.

Maggie Stiefvater

It's very ugly' I said generously. 'But it looks as though it would laugh at snow. And, if you hit a deer it would hiccup, and keep going.

Maggie Stiefvater

She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one. Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps.

Maggie Stiefvater

Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.

Maggie Stiefvater

There is no better taste than this: someone else’s laughter in your mouth.

Macy Gray

When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to get you through

Madame de Stael

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

Haruki Murakami

Is it against the law for me to know it?

Haruki Murakami

Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside.

Haruki Murakami

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

Haruki Murakami

Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.

Gustav Mahler

Tradition is laziness.

Gustave Flaubert

One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.

Gustave Flaubert

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

Gray Davis

Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.