Quotes about la
laughter howl plans
God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know? Rick Moody
law people feelings
It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour. Richard Wagner
lasts sculpture painting
Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting. Richard MacDonald
law states
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. Rene Descartes
lasts opinion reservations
At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
law giving safety
I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake Thomas More
law doctrine old-and-new
We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries. Thomas Paine
land lazy aristocracy
The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared with the active world, are the drones, a seraglio of males, who neither collect the honey nor form the hive, but exist only for lazy enjoyment.
law names perfect
Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.
law government doe
A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of judicature does not make the laws, neither can it alter them; it only acts in conformity to the laws made: and the government is in like manner governed by the constitution.
land community
Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.
law support gold
If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.
law generations succeed
It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent.
law empires revolution
You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole. Thomas Hutchinson
lakes swans swim
There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon. Thomas Hood
law mind shadow
Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing? Thomas Huxley
ladders off-to-college focus-on-goals
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon.
law games chess-game
The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
law looks purpose
It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as a useful piece of scientific scaffolding, will be replaced by the deduction of the phenomena known as attraction and repulsion, from the general laws of motion.
land wind waiting
As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom. Thomas Davis
law judging virtue
A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is not the master, but the minister of the law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state. Thomas F. Wilson
laughing long pleasure
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. Thomas de Quincey
laughing vices virtue
The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves. Thomas Browne
lasts sin figures
As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.
latin mean ties
The word "religion" beautifully defines itself, of course. It translates "to bind" from the Latin--"re" means back and "ligare" means to tie up. All religions are straightjackets, jackets for the straight. Timothy Leary
latin language cellular
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.
law voice doubt
None within the sound of my voice should be in any doubt concerning what is moral and what is not, nor should any be in doubt about what is expected of us ... We have been and continue to be taught God's laws. Despite what you may see or hear elsewhere, these laws are unchanging. Thomas S. Monson
law people negative
Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral. Thomas Sowell
law return principles
Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.
lasts argument refuge
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
law matter immigration
If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.
law ideas justice
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".
law world response
When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.