Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Jay Hooker

It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.

John Holdren

There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.

John Heywood

This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.

The first two were different from the last one.

Mark Calcavecchia

The first three holes, he couldn't find the course. But the last 15 holes, he didn't miss a shot. He's ready.

The first season went so good. Last year was even better.

The first question was a laundry list explanation of peoples' activities.

Alice Stewart

The first priority is to make sure the people have what they need and that there is not a lapse in their coverage.

David Allen

the first 15 laps were pretty scary today.

Henrik Zetterberg

The first one was kind of lucky. I took a swing on it, and it landed in the net.

Neal Boortz

The Tea Partiers don't want all regulations eliminated. They just want laws that can be understood and regulations that aren't going to destroy businesses, or leave deserving veterans without a source for a mortgage loan.

Ralph Nader

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

Ralph Nader

Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against minorities, especially since they're given no competent legal counsel defense in many cases. It's a system that has to be perfect. You cannot execute one innocent person. No system is perfect. And to top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics it, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole

Ralph Chaplin

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

Rajneesh

Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.

Rajneesh

The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you start taking life as fun, the ego has to die, it cannot exist anymore. Ego is illness; it needs an atmosphere of sadness to exist. Seriousness creates the sadness in you. Sadness is a necessary soil for the ego. Hence your saints are so serious, for the simple reason that they are the most egoistic people on the earth. They may be trying to be humble, but they are very proud of their humbleness. They take their humbleness very seriously.

Rajneesh

Existence loves laughter. You may have observed, or not, that man is the only animal in the whole of existence who is capable of laughing. Laughter is the only distinguishing mark that you are not a buffalo, you are not a donkey; you are a human being. Laughter defines your humanity and your evolution. And the greatest laugh is at your own ridiculous things.

Rajneesh

Millions of people have tried meditation and dropped out of it because they took it very seriously. Religion has been thought to be a very serious affair - it is not. One has to understand - at least those who are with me - that religion is a playfulness, a laughter. Take it easy; then things blossom without any tension. You are not taking it easy, you are making it difficult.

Rajneesh

Laughter is such a healthy exercise. Somebody is laughing - that's perfectly good exercise, join him. Somebody is being playful - if you have time, join him.

Rajneesh

Everybody knows from his own experience that after laughter, good laughter, a belly laugh, you almost feel that you have taken an ice-cold shower; a peace, a silence, a freshness... The same is true about crying, but very few people know the secret of crying because it is more repressed than laughter.

Rainer Maria Rilke

You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.

Rainer Maria Rilke

He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.

Rainer Maria Rilke

In the depths all becomes law.

Rafael Correa

I would just want to wish President Obama the best of luck, and that he should bear in mind that just as he is a good person, there are many of us presidents in Latin America who are also good people.

Rafael Correa

The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation.

Rafael Nadal

I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.

Sharon Van Etten

Everything will be okay. I have a sticker on my laptop that says that.

Shane Leslie

It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.

Shane Carruth

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

Shane Filan

You're only as good as your last album.

Shana Alexander

The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

Shane Claiborne

You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut.

Sergei Prokofiev

I strenuously object to the very word "grotesque" which has become hackneyed to the point of nausea...I would prefer my music to be described as "Scherzo-ish" in quality, or else by three words describing the various degrees of the Scherzo - whimsicality, laughter, mockery.