Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toward the 1890s, you start seeing more lawyers who are homegrown. Still, for many years, they couldn't get training in the South.

Larry Craig

We go after law enforcement where the American people say it ought to be,

Scott Ellis

We just do it that way because we don't think that's the way the law is supposed to be imposed.

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.

Richard Dawkins

It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy.

Richard Whately

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

Richelle Mead

I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.

Rebecca West

Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.

Rebecca West

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

Rebecca West

The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.

Richard Bach

No matter how qualified you are, you won't reach a better life until you imagine it.

Russell Baker

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

Ruben Blades

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

Ron Chernow

The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.

Tryon Edwards

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Truman Capote

The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

Richard Curtis

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

Raymond Chandler

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Raymond Chandler

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.