Famous Quotes & Sayings

Linus Torvalds

I was going to start with a lawyer joke, but I'm told it was already done yesterday,

Julianna Margulies

I was at his premiere last week for 'Solaris' and we're in touch probably once a week I'd say; at least,

I was so thrilled when we saw the number of people that voted last time. I want people to vote for me but really I want people to vote more.

I was surprised the magnitude was so large -- over 80 percent reduction in risk.

Craig Biggio

I was safe here last year, but now I'm not safe anymore.

I was rescued. I love you. I am sorry I'm a little late for Thanksgiving.

I was so nervous, I couldn't watch till the landing was over.

Bashar al-Assad

But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.

Bashar al-Assad

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

Baruch Spinoza

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

Baruch Spinoza

Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.

Baruch Spinoza

Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.

Baruch Spinoza

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

Baruch Spinoza

Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].

Barbara Olson

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

Augustus

Only that which is well done is quickly done.

Augustus

Make haste cautiously.

Augustus

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

Augustus

Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.

Augustus

May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the architect of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die, that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand deep and secure.

Augustus

Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

Augustus

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

Auguste Comte

History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws.

Arthur Koestler

Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are

Arthur Miller

Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh.

Art Linkletter

And keep a sense of humor. It doesn't mean you have to tell jokes. If you can't think of anything else, when you're my age, take off your clothes and walk in front of a mirror. I guarantee you'll get a laugh.

Art Buchwald

I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.

Aziz Ansari

You've got to be pretty confident that you're good. If I do a show and for whatever reason no one laughs, I'll be like, 'Wow, those people are weird'.

Ayn Rand

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

Ayn Rand

you are never called upon to prove a negative. that's a law of logic.

Ayn Rand

There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them.

Ayn Rand

Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.

Ayn Rand

It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.