Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Thompson

There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.

Fred Thompson

Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science,

Frank Lautenberg

Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties.

Maggie Smith

It's funny to be pigeonholed so late in life but there we are.

Maggie Stiefvater

at last no one decided And no one knocked And no one jumped up And no one opened And there stood no one And no one entered And no one said: welcome And no one answered: at last

Maggie Stiefvater

I felt a tickle on my skin; it took me a moment to realize that Cole was driving his die-cast Mustang up my arm. He was laughing to himself, hushed and infectious, as if there was still any reason to be quite.

Maggie Stiefvater

It's very ugly' I said generously. 'But it looks as though it would laugh at snow. And, if you hit a deer it would hiccup, and keep going.

Maggie Stiefvater

She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one. Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps.

Maggie Stiefvater

Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.

Maggie Stiefvater

There is no better taste than this: someone else’s laughter in your mouth.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Holly Black

So what are you really wearing?" The words left her mouth before she could consider them. She winced. He didn't seem to mind; in fact, he flashed her one of his brief smiles. "And if I said nothing at all?" "Then I would point out that sometimes, if you look at something out of the corner of your eye, you can see right through glamour," she returned. That brought surprised laughter. "What a relief to us both then that I am actually wearing exactly what you saw me in this afternoon. Although one might point out that in that outfit, your last concern should be my modesty.

Hermann Weyl

Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.

Hermann von Helmholtz

I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

Hermann Hesse

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

Henry Van Dyke

O' who will walk with me along lifes merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, who dares to laugh out loud and free...

Henry Van Dyke

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

From labor there shall come forth rest.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nothing with God can be accidental.

Henri Poincare

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.

Henri Nouwen

Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.

Henri Nouwen

[Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh.

Heinrich Himmler

One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us.

Hayley Williams

Everybody live like it's the last day you will ever see.

Hassanal Bolkiah

Theory states that Allahs law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair.

Hayley Mills

I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

Hesham Qandil

I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told them to take the proper measure and apply the law against the people who are attacking them and attacking the buildings.

Hesiod

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

Henry Rollins

I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it. But that's how we are. That's what happens when you put people together and put them into societies and cultures and have laws and the idea of justice.