Quotes about la
law speech cobwebs
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off. Diogenes
lamps daylight broads
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human .
law way crime
Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you. Dick Francis
language english-language
I was also in love with the English language. Dick Schaap
lasts british heard
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'? Dick Gregory
laughing comedian make-me-laugh
Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.
law white black
It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
laughter way release
Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears.
laughing people very-good
Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
laughter teenager idols
The response of teenagers to their idols is relevant. As an audience, they enjoy themselves, not by screaming with laughter, but screaming with screams. Desmond Morris
laughter caring thinking
I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail, love, caring, sharing will prevail. Because we are made for goodness. We are made for love. Desmond Tutu
land umpires white
In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
laughter justice lessons
That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.
law people able
Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny.
laughter caring perfect
You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.
land justice trying
I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians. I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'"
law fundamentals collaboration
The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.
landscape surprise natural
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. Derek Walcott
law hollywood spirituality
Hollywood is a place where if you abide by the rules and laws, you can get depressed. That's why faith and spirituality is a higher law. Derek Luke
law littles universe
When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws. Derek Sivers
land knowing heaven
Contrary to popular belief, the moment we land in Heaven we don't immediately know everything! If we did, we'd be God Himself - all-knowing. David Berg
lasts god-love last-time
Those who love God never meet for the last time.
labels records rooms
In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that. Dave Van Ronk
labels crackers boxes
If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.
law progress eternity
Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity. David A. Bednar
latin humility pride
There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being. David Whyte
law tides towns
Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide. David Mamet
labels want reason
The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music. Danny Brown
latin book reading
I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I see them reading X Latin American Writer Who Sucks, I'm not psyched. But in terms of news, I do think that's important. Daniel Alarcon
latin america fluency
There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can delight in the details, the humor, the particularities of speech, of dialects. Something is always lost in translation; we know instinctively that this is the case. A Radio Ambulante story looks at Latin America from the inside.
latin men two
A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang, Diego Osorno, Cristóbal Peña, Gabriela Wiener, Leila Guerriero, Cristian Alarcón, among others. These are writers doing important, groundbreaking work. So the talent is there, as is the habit of radio listenership, and what we propose to do is unite the two. We want to have these immensely gifted journalists - men and women who've already revitalized the long-form narrative - we want them to tell their stories in sound.
land support emigration
How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
latin writing thinking
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.