Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Sandler

I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

Adam Clarke

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

Adam Carolla

I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.

Adam Carolla

I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

Abraham Polonsky

Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

Abu Bakar Bashir

Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.

Ace Frehley

My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.

Abraham Lincoln

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

Abraham Lincoln

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.

Abraham Lincoln

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

Abraham Lincoln

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

Abraham Lincoln

When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.

Abraham Lincoln

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

Abraham Lincoln

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

Abraham Lincoln

The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

Abraham Lincoln

Laws change; people die; the land remains.

Abraham Lincoln

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

Abraham Lincoln

Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

Anna Torv

They say Australians get that ten-yard stare. It comes from the land and the horizon. You can see all around you for as far as you can see. So you just stare. I do it all the time.

Angie Stone

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

Donald Miller

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

Colley Cibber

Possession is eleven points in the law.

Colleen McCullough

The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.

Colleen Hoover

Laugh a lot. Never go a day without laughing at least once.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

Claude Bernard

Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.

Dalai Lama

Furthermore, I shall explain the nature of dharmata: Such a nature as this cannot be determined to be any one thing. So however you label it, that is how it appears.

Dalai Lama

Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.

Doc Holliday

Well I'll Be Damned. This is funny.

Dolly Parton

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.

Diogenes

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

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human .

Dick Francis

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.