Famous Quotes & Sayings

Otto von Bismarck

We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.

Otto von Bismarck

With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.

Otto von Bismarck

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

Otto von Bismarck

If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.

Kathy Acker

Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.

Kathy Acker

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

Kanye West

I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I'm soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen

Kami Garcia

Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost

Kami Garcia

So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman.

Kanye West

Ralph Lauren was borin' before I worn him

Kanye West

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

June Carter Cash

For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another.

June Jordan

The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.

June Jordan

I am working never to be late again.

Julian McMahon

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

Judy Gold

Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh.

Judy Woodruff

Election Day now has become the last day to vote.

Joyce Meyer

I encourage you to deliberately look for something to smile or laugh about every day, and be sure to share a smile or a laugh with someone else and brighten their day too!

Paul Krassner

English is my second language. Laughter is my first.

Paul Kantner

You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

Paul Klee

It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.

Paul Klee

To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke.

Paul Dickson

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

Paul Dickson

Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.

Paul Dirac

A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.

Paul Dirac

The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take simplicity into consideration in a subordinate way to beauty ... It often happens that the requirements of simplicity and beauty are the same, but where they clash, the latter must take precedence.

Paul Dirac

The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble. It therefore becomes desirable that approximate practical methods of applying quantum mechanics should be developed, which can lead to an explanation of the main features of complex atomic systems without too much computation.

Paul Davies

We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.

Paul Davies

Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.

Paul Davies

The question not many ask is: why are the laws of physics like they are?

Moshe Sharett

Arabs respect only the language of force.

Mother Jones

My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.

Mother Teresa

She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.