Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Bullock

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

Alan Blinder

"Murphys law of economic policy": Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.

Al Smith

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us.

Al Ries

THE LAW OF THE GENERIC: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.

Al Ries

THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being, all creaturehood and all creatures, every plurality and all pluralities, all law and every law, all relations, all causes, all thoughts, all mysteries, all enigmas, all feeling, all desires, every unuttered secret, all thrones and dominions, all personalities, all things visible and invisible in heaven and in earth, motion, space, time, life, death, good, evil, heaven, and hell.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The God of the modern evangelical rarely astonishes anybody. He manages to stay pretty much with the constitution. Never break our by-laws. He's a very well-behaved God and very denominational and very much like one of us...we ask Him to help us when we're in trouble and look to Him to watch over us when we're asleep. The God of the modern evangelical isn't a God I could have much respect for.

Dianne Feinstein

Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets.

David Shapiro

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

David Mitchell

Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime.

Dave Barry

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.

Dave Barry

[American tax laws] are constantly changing as our elected representatives seek new ways to ensure that whatever tax advice we receive is incorrect.

Dave Barry

Any parent that relies on any law to help him parent is an idiot.

Bryan Stevenson

Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law.

Bryan Stevenson

Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.

Bryan Adams

There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.

Cesare Beccaria

Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

Catherine Booth

If Christ cannot supersede the Law, then I am lost, and lost forever.

Catherine Booth

What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.

Catherine Deneuve

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.

Camille Paglia

In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention, constraint, oppression. Dionysus is energy unbound, mad, callous, destructive, wasteful. Apollo is law, history, tradition, the dignity and safety of custom and form. Dionysus is the new, exhilarating but rude, sweeping all away to begin again. Apollo is a tyrant, Dionysus is a vandal.

Cal Thomas

Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.

Cal Thomas

Democrats' desperate attempt to focus on campaign finance reform instead of laws that may have been broken by the Clinton-Gore campaign is like Mike Tyson demanding a reform in boxing regulations after biting off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear.

Caitlin Moran

I am pathetically law-abiding.

Bryan Fuller

I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.

Chris Christie

If I had the choice now, I'd make New Jersey a state where you can have a shall issue on conceal and carry. Now our legislature won't do that, but I have done recently is to make sure that we're making it easier for folks to be able to get a permit in New Jersey because they deserve the right to do that as law-abiding citizens.

Cheryl Richardson

Never underestimate the power of intention.

Cheryl Richardson

Nothing soulful is birthed from force.

Cheryl Richardson

Words are an invitation to life, a request to bring energy into form. Choose your words carefully.

Cheryl Richardson

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

Cheryl Mendelson

So many people imagine housekeeping to be boring, frustrating, repetitive, unintelligent drudgery. I cannot agree. In fact, having kept house, practiced law, taught, and done many other sorts of work, low and high-paid, I can assure you that it is actually lawyers who are most familiar with the experience of unintelligent drudgery.

Chen Guangcheng

China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.

Charles Lamb

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.