Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. R. Ammons

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

The debtor lawyers that I know, and I know most in the state, are very, very busy.

Abbie Hoffman

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

A. E. Waite

All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.

A. A. Milne

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Aeschylus

The laws of a state change with the changing times.

Agatha Christie

lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

Agatha Christie

The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.

Adrian Rogers

Law without penalty is only advise.

Adrian Grenier

I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a scientist; I'm not an expert on environmental law; I'm a guy that can tell stories. So I always look for a way to communicate ideas and help to spread excitement for change.

Addison Mizner

Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.

Adam Weishaupt

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

Ada Lovelace

Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this department of human study will be enabled more effectually than heretofore to keep pace with our theoretical knowledge of its principles and laws, through the complete control which the engine gives us over the executive manipulation of algebraical and numerical symbols.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.

Abraham Lincoln

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Abraham Lincoln

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

Abraham Lincoln

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

We've briefed a top barrister in constitutional law and we're ready to go.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.

There is a very steep learning curve, even for someone as versed in constitutional law as Roberts is.

Crimea was not a non-nuclear zone in an international law sense but was part of Ukraine, a state which doesn't possess nuclear arms.

I think we should modify the laws to a point where it doesn't take several years to immigrate.

I think as Americans go about their plans, they should be vigilant. Obviously, if they see something that looks suspicious, they should report it to law enforcement.

James Madison

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

Dan Maffei

I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect womens access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.

Dan Millman

The only laws are paradox, humor and change.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?

Cormac McCarthy

If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.

Dwight L. Moody

It is a favorite thing with infidels to set their own standard, to measure themsleves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God's law as a balance weight.

Courtney Love

I am God and my lawyers are my 12 disciples...do not f**k with me!

Anthony Romero

Unfortunately, as our lawsuit shows today, those statements are patently false.