Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Dreiser

Shakespeare, I come !

Theodore Bikel

You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.

Theodor Herzl

Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

Theodor Herzl

The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

Theodor Herzl

Were I to sum up the Basle Congress in a word- which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly- it would be this: 'At Basle, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. If not in 5 years, certainly in 50, everyone will know it.'

Theodor Herzl

It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.

Theodor Adorno

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

Theodor Adorno

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Theodor Adorno

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

Theodor Adorno

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

Theodor Adorno

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Thaddeus Stevens

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

Thaddeus Stevens

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

Thaddeus Stevens

I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

Terry Jones

Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?

Terry Pratchett

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

Margaret Sanger

To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization. g. to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives.

Margaret Mead

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

Margaret Mead

laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's place, even at one's own expense, is the special emotional basis of democratic procedures, just as pride is the emotion of an aristocracy, shame of a crowd that rules, and fear of a police state.

Margaret Mead

The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.

Margaret Heffernan

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

Margaret Fuller

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

Marco Polo

The law which their prophet Mohamed has given to muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all.

Marcus Brigstocke

No one wants life to end. It was bad enough when my last tour came to an end.

Kin Hubbard

Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, an' it keeps on laughin'.

Michael Lewis

When the last history of high-frequency trading is written, Hunsader, like Joe Saluzzi and Sal Arnuk of Themis Trading, deserves a prominent place in it.

Michael Lewis

The Irish turned in on themselves and bid up their own land prices in the most extraordinary ways. The Irish people stepped in and guaranteed the banks, and committed to repay sums they can't afford to repay, and essentially committed themselves to generations of suffering.

Michael Foot

Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law

Michael Faraday

I have been so electrically occupied of late that I feel as if hungry for a little chemistry: but then the conviction crosses my mind that these things hang together under one law & that the more haste we make onwards each in his own path the sooner we shall arrive, and meet each other, at that state of knowledge of natural causes from which all varieties of effects may be understood & enjoyed.

Michael Bolton

I'm pretty irreverent. There is a lot of need to find humour in life. Although I'd never be as disrespectful to laugh at someone's expense.

Michael Bloomberg

I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to attract the best and the brightest - and Ireland has more than its fair share - we need to inject some common sense into our immigration laws, and I'm doing my best to make that case in Washington.

Michael Bloomberg

We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.

Michael Bloomberg

Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.