Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter MacKay

The world is threatened by terrorism and violent extremism like never before. The rule of law is one of our chief defences against terrorism. Our shared values of freedom and democracy are shielded when like-minded nations work together to promote justice.

Peter Marshall

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

Rachel Carson

Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all - perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows.

Quintus Ennius

To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman Poetry." We must remember how truly Greek he was in his point of view. He set the example for later Latin poetry by writing the first epic of Rome in Greek hexameter verses instead of in the old Saturnian verse. He made popular the doctrines of Euhemerus, and he was in general a champion of free thought and rationalism.

Quintus Ennius

Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.

Quintilian

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

Quintilian

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Quincy Jones

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."

Quentin Crisp

I am the last of Britain's stately homos.

Quentin Crisp

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Quentin Tarantino

I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing.

Prince Royce

There are two sides of me, the bachata/tropical Latin side and the English pop as well. They're both equally important, so I'll always make sure to keep both roots in my music.

Primo Levi

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.

Prince Philip

I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.

Pol Pot

If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you.

Pliny the Elder

Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.

Pliny the Elder

Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.

Pliny the Elder

There is alas no law against incompetency; no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the patients, and the doctor is the only person not punished for murder.

Pliny the Elder

When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

Pliny the Elder

To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.

Pliny the Elder

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

Plutarch

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

Plutarch

Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

Plutarch

Barba non facit philosophum

Pierre Bayle

The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which, without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind, are transported from one part of the heavens to another by virtue of the general laws of motion.

Philip Yancey

Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.

Pope Benedict XVI

As I passed alongside it, I prayed for a future in which the peoples of the Holy Land can live together in peace and harmony without the need for such instruments of security and separation

Pope Benedict XVI

In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.

Mike Pence

Law enforcement in America is a force for good.

Natsuki Takaya

Sometimes living can be hard, but it's only because we're alive that we can make each other laugh,cry...be happy! In this world, if that's not a reason for being born in this world...I don't know what is!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Thomas Aquinas

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

Thomas Aquinas

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.