Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neale Donald Walsch

Virtually all of the civil laws in all of the world's societies are based on what humanity, in the earliest days, believed to be God's Law.

Neale Donald Walsch

The universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces copies of your thoughts.

Neale Donald Walsch

Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.

Morgan Freeman

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

Miles Franklin

there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

Milan Kundera

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Milarepa

When Pune Two came along, I sometimes thought I had somereal questions to ask. Serious questions! And yes, to answer your question. There was still a lot of playfulness, laughter and humor. From both sides.

Milarepa

Osho would do mischievous things like sign my name to someone else's question. Or take my question and sign it with someone else's name! Sometimes he would laugh just hearing my name read. At other times, he would appear stern and administer a 'hit'. I could never predict what he was going to do, nor how he would react. Want some advice? Never try to second-guess the master.

Milarepa

In the last few Uruguayan discourses, Osho was mostly saving my questions for the end. It was as if he wanted to end the discourse on a special note, leaving us all in an ambience of his choosing. I would invariably watch him disappear around the corner, chuckling to himself, leaving in his wake a room overflowing with laughter, love, and the fragrance of the divine.

Mila Kunis

If the bear were to make a racial comment, it would be more likely to get a laugh than if a person on stage were to make a racial comment.

Mila Kunis

It doesn't matter if you're play-pretending crying or play-pretending laughing, you're still play-pretending.

Milan Kundera

I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative.

Milan Kundera

Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our own cold solitude. Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry. That's why I tell you yet again, and you want to keep in mind: Boccaccio doesn't understand love. Love can never be laughable. Love has nothing in common with laughter.

Milan Kundera

If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy

Milan Kundera

To laugh is to live profoundly.

Miguel de Icaza

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

Micky Dolenz

Shh! Don't talk with your mouth full.

Mickey Gilley

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

Mara Wilson

I was getting keys for my apartment, and I asked if I could get doubles, because I'm forgetful, and the woman there said, "Yeah, but it costs $5." I was like, "Oh, okay." But then she said, "Actually, you know what, I'm just going to give it to you for free. You were in that movie Mrs. Doubtfire, and that movie really helped me out in a time when I needed it. It got me through something, and it made me laugh when I needed to laugh.

Marcel Proust

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.

John Adams

Politics are a labyrinth without a clue.

John Adams

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.

John Adams

I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.

John Adams

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

John Adams

Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

John Adams

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

Jacob Bronowski

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Jacob Bronowski

We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.

Harvey Cox

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

Harvey Cox

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Harvey Mackay

It doesn't matter if they say you can't do it. It only matters if you say you can't.

Harvey Mackay

Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work.

Louise Erdrich

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.