Quotes about la
latin matter way
I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin). Charles Clarke
land knaves fool
Knaves starve not in the land of fools. Charles Churchill
law lawyer suspects
The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.
land size culture
England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size.
law advancement origin-of-species
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. Charles Darwin
law free-will fixed
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
law facts predictions
Till facts be grouped and called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen and to see the bearing of scattered facts.
land feet water
The theory which I would offer, is simply, that as the land with the attached reefs subsides very gradually from the action of subterranean causes, the coral-building polypi soon raise again their solid masses to the level of the water: but not so with the land; each inch lost is irreclaimably gone; as the whole gradually sinks, the water gains foot by foot on the shore, till the last and highest peak is finally submerged.
laughter inspiration mouths
Describing laughter: The sound is produced by a deep inspiration followed by short, interrupted, spasmodic contractions of the chest, and especially the diaphragm... the mouth is open more or less widely, with the corners drawn much backwards, as well as a little upwards; and the upper lip is somewhat raised.
law direct-action growth
A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.
language species
A language, like a species, when extinct, never ... reappears.
law desire facts
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.
lasts conclusion disbelief
Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.
law rewards england
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. Charles Babbage
law light government
Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope may derive profit from his ingenuity, whilst he who unravels the laws of light and vision, on which multitudes of phenomena depend, shall descend unrewarded to the tomb.
lasts costumes tradition
Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming. Channing Tatum
law justice examination
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established. Blaise Pascal
lasts infinity reason
The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
law break-through choices
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.
laughter two together
Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.
law reason reasonable
Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.
law force
Law, without force, is impotent.
law imagination earth
Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.
lasts steps reason
Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.
lasts realizing reason
The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
law giving grace
The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.
latin ambition ego
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony. Billie Burke
laughing people complaining
But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?
land scottish scots
Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing Billy Boyd
last-words
Don't be in such a hurry. Billie Holiday
lawyer
I always wanted to play a lawyer. Billy Bob Thornton
law stories crime
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. Bill James
law issues people
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.