Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Jay Gould

Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.

Stephen Jay Gould

A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces representing constraints of inheritance and development. Vavilov placed too much emphasis on internal constraints and downgraded the power of selection. But Western Darwinians have erred equally in practically ignoring (while acknowledging in theory) the limits placed on selection by structure and development what Vavilov and the older biologists would have called "laws of form.

Catherine Crier

The Rule of Law is being trampled by a heart-felt but misguided power play for revenge,

It was another law enforcement officer. He was part of our family.

Carlos Lopez

These encouraging results could not have occurred without the contributions that law enforcement partners throughout Texas have made to traffic safety,

The state is having to take the law into its own hands. There has been zero enforcement nationally.

I've been told by my lawyers that I will not be made whole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things have their laws as well as men; things refuse to be trifled with.

These are the toughest laws in the country.

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

We had the players and were able to use those to the max - Lawrence Dallaglio, Martin Johnson, Jonny Wilkinson - to market the sport,

The priorities would have remained the same ? first medical care, then law enforcement alert.

With Law back, they've started to play better basketball, and that has me worried too.

The self-employed person can't just go to the end of the year and say here's how much I owe. You are required by law to make payments during the year.

These lawsuits are a waste of taxpayer dollars.

I'm not saying we don't support a total ban. It's just not realistic at this point. We would much more prefer to pass a law that saves 5,000 lives than go for something that will never be passed.

Kirk Cameron

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.

Kim Young-sam

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

Karl Liebknecht

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

Karl Marx

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

Karl Marx

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

Jules Verne

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

Jules Verne

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Judith Butler

Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population; the state is not subject to the rule of law, but law can be suspended or deployed tactically and partially to suit the requirements of a state that seeks more and more to allocate sovereign power to its executive and administrative powers. The law is suspended in the name of "sovereignty" of the nation, where "sovereignty" denotes the task of any state to preserve and protect its own territoriality.

Jude Law

Rafferty [Law] plays three or four instruments. He is very gifted. Whereas I pick instruments up and kind of stare at them and go, "I can't ever possibly play this." And I don't!

Jude Law

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

Josh Fox

Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system.

Joseph Joubert

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

There's two sides to every coin. The prevailing wage law is there to protect the laborers. It's there as a standard.

Gerald R. Ford

That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected. He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.

Jeremy Rifkin

The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.

Jenny Holzer

Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.

Gilberto Gil

[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba...