Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the law unto my will.

William Shakespeare

I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.

Lauren Worsham

After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.

Mark Barrowcliffe

I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning to see where all those Latin American magical realists get their inspiration from: they don't need to make anything up; they just write down what's around them.

Nicolas Roeg

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

When you think of those overtime games, some of the others that were ours to win going into the last minute or so, I know ? we all know ? it would a be a different season if we had him.

Louis C. K.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

Louis C. K.

There's no such thing as a cheap laugh.

Kurt Vonnegut

I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.

Kurt Vonnegut

People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

Kurt Vonnegut

What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Mark Cuban

Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in software in particular, there is no place for it.

Charley Reese

[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.

Charley Reese

Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law.

Charley Pride

No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.

Charles Lee

The sugar industry doesn't want to see more of the agricultural areas turned into storm-water treatment areas. Ultimately they want to develop that land for houses and a shopping center.

God gave these ten laws for our good. He wants us to be our very best and to get the most that is possible our of life.

Charles Koch

As an engineer, I understood that the natural world operated according to fixed laws. Through my studies, I came to realize that there were, likewise, laws that govern human wellbeing. It seemed to me that these laws are fundamental not only to the wellbeing of societies, but also to the miniature societies of organizations. Indeed, that is what we found when we began to apply these principles systematically at Koch Industries. Through our observation of how they could create prosperity in an organization, I began to systematize my beliefs into Market-Based Management.

Charles Kuralt

What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.

Charles Lindbergh

The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created.

Charles Krauthammer

It is ridiculous to sue the president on a Wednesday because he oversteps the law, as he has done a dozen times illegally and unconstitutionally, and then on a Thursday say that he should overstep the law, contradict the law that passed in 2008 and deal with this himself.

Charles Krauthammer

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

Aileen Quinn

One of these days in the next 10 years, I will play 'Evita.' I don't know when or where, but I love 'Evita', especially with all my Latin and Spanish studies. It's a very demanding role but I'd love to play it.

Aidan Quinn

Make them laugh, and then make them listen.

Aidan Gillen

It is exciting to be off to a new land with a new friend.

Ai Weiwei

If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

Ai Weiwei

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

Ai Weiwei

The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

Bobbi Brown

I layer my moisturizers, which makes my complexion so fresh, I can wear less foundation.

Bob Woodward

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

Bob Menendez

I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.

Bob Monkhouse

Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.