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laughter humor appreciate
English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place. Mark Twain
laughing together stories
The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.
laughter blow race
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts
law lawyer protect
The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.
land people challenges
Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)
law important narrative
Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.
law people sausage
People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.
law hatred doe
We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply seek to manage the effects of hatred, which does need to be done, of course. But if all we do is manage the effects of hatred, then hatred will simply stalk us the next decade or the next generation. We need to dismantle hatred itself. Marianne Williamson
lasts firsts degrees
There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last Mikhail Bulgakov
law democracy snuff
Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences. Marian Wright Edelman
laughing cry
It is better to laugh than cry. Maria Grazia Cucinotta
law needs trials
The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury. Maria Cantwell
lasts roller-coaster monogamy
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life. Maria Bello
law anarchy defying
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy. Martin Luther King, Jr.
law minorities unjust
A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?
law long mind
So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.
law vote protection
We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.
land justice long
We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountaintop. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land.
law unjust natural
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.
land heritage want
What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right.
law self expectations
The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world? Mark Victor Hansen
law-of-attraction want what-you-want
What you want, wants you.
law rich manifest
This is an absolute law: You've got to be rich inside to become and remain rich outside. Become rich inside and your mental equivalent will manifest in your experience.
land worry
OK, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry. Mark Wahlberg
language counterparts
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. Mark Hopkins
laughter thinking vanity
God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity. Mark Buchanan
land waiting way
Don't wait to worship God until you get to the Promised Land; you've got to worship along the way. Mark Batterson
laughing people helping
The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most. Failure helps us take God more seriously and ourselves less seriously.
lazy watches being-lazy
I have to watch out for being lazy. Marianne Faithfull
laughter laughing impossible
how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others. Maria Edgeworth
law government needs
There is an increasing awareness of the need for some form of global government. Mikhail Gorbachev
land building
The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land. Nicholas Haslam
lawyer problem congressman
The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000. Nicholas Johnson