Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.

Oliver Cromwell

Necessity has no law.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

Norman Vincent Peale

Expect the best and get it.

Norman Vincent Peale

When you expect the best you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person's life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws.

Emile M. Cioran

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

Emile M. Cioran

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

Ellen G. White

Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life.—Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey

Ellen DeGeneres

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

Eric Schmidt

If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.

Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe.

Emile Durkheim

Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.

Emile Durkheim

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

Emile Durkheim

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.

Henri Poincare

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.

Hassanal Bolkiah

Theory states that Allahs law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair.

Hesham Qandil

I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told them to take the proper measure and apply the law against the people who are attacking them and attacking the buildings.

Henry Rollins

I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it. But that's how we are. That's what happens when you put people together and put them into societies and cultures and have laws and the idea of justice.

Heinrich Heine

Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are only its conditions? The essence of music is revelation.

Henry Ward Beecher

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

Henry Ward Beecher

The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

Henry Ward Beecher

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

Henry Ward Beecher

Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.

Henry Ward Beecher

Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.