Quotes about la
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
lambs bed larks
To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb. Nicholas Breton
law littles matter
Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little. Nicholas D. Kristof
land airports states
A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it. Neil Abercrombie
land stuff discrimination
So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.
land ideas common
Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.
land purpose assets
When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.
law competition use
I am determined to use competition law to protect European industry and consumers. Neelie Kroes
law white body
I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow. Neil Armstrong
lasts moments last-day
I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant. Ned Vizzini
lazy ambitious knows
I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.
law growing knees
The ever-growing size of software applications is what makes Moore's Law possible: 'If we hadn't brought your computer to its knees, why would you go out and buy a new one?' Nathan Myhrvold
law oil understanding
Food, like anything else, lives in the physical world and obeys the laws of physics. When you whisk together some oil and a little bit of lemon juice - or, in other words, make mayonnaise - you are using the principles of physics and chemistry. Understanding how those principles affect cooking lets you cook better.
laughing sense-of-humor always-laughing
Why have they been telling us women lately that we have no sense of humor -- when we are always laughing? . . . and when we're not laughing, we're smiling. Naomi Weisstein
lap trouble storyteller
We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's. Naomi Shihab Nye
land nervous film
You're always nervous about how a film lands with an audience. Naomi Watts
lasts communist optimist
Communists are the last optimists. Nadine Gordimer
law white judging
In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.
law civilized-nations civilized
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions. Naguib Mahfouz
law practice citizens
The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are. Mo Ibrahim
lace obsession has-beens
I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it. Miuccia Prada
law issues justice
But I am pro-life and will intend, if I’m president of the United States, to encourage pro-life policies. [...] And I hope to appoint justices to the Supreme Court that will follow the law and the constitution. And it would be my preference that they reverse Roe v. Wade and therefore they return to the people and their elected representatives the decisions with regards to this important issue. Mitt Romney
laughing doe
One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs. Mireille Guiliano
law god-love sincere
For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God. R. C. Sproul
law needs hell
The power of the gospel is the word of God . . . nobody needs a gospel if there’s no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?
law requirements christ
The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.
law support democracy
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe. R. Buckminster Fuller
law opinion sometimes
Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.
law self sustainability
Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.
last-words happened
My God. What's happened? Princess Diana
land people world
The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.
latin people plus
Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent Publilius Syrus
laughing envy brave
The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.