Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Dick Gregory

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.

Desmond Tutu

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.

Desmond Tutu

The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.

Derek Luke

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 Sivers

When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.

David A. Bednar

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

David Mamet

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

Claude M. Bristol

Whatever we fix our thoughts upon or steadily focus our imagination upon, that is what we attract.

Clarence Thomas

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

Dan Simmons

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

Dan Rather

Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.

Dan Rather

By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls.

Dan Quayle

I told you all lawyers are worthless. After all it takes won (sic) to know one.

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.

David Lodge

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.

David Lynch

The world is as you are.

Dan Brown

The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece

Dan Brown

Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.

Curtis Jackson

You can be a victim, or you can lock and load.

Confucius

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

Confucius

Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

Confucius

If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.

Confucius

Do not unto another that you would hot have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest.

Daniel Webster

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.

Daniel Webster

The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

Daniel Webster

Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.

David Cameron

For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.

David Boies

Obviously Im a lawyer; I like to have cases.

David Boies

It was important for the Supreme Court to say it’s a matter of constitutional law that everyone is equal, to say everyone is entitled to the dignity that comes from being married to the person you love.