Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rose Wilder Lane

Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person, from the Gestapo and the Storm Troops, from the concentration camp, the torture chamber, the revolver at the back of his neck in a cellar.

Roger Ebert

Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert's Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.

Roger Ebert

Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law.

Rod Parsley

Grace cannot wipe out the law of sewing and reaping.

Rod McKuen

Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes.

Robert Pozen

From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.

Robert Pozen

You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an incentive to go slowly, be there as long as possible, to over-research things and over-staff.

Sarah Vowell

Behind every bad law, a deep fear.

Sara Sheridan

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Samuel Johnson

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

Samuel Johnson

For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.

Samuel Johnson

It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.

Samuel Johnson

The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered.

Robert Greene

You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.

Robert Ballard

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.

Robert Anton Wilson

It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.

Robert Anton Wilson

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

Richard Leakey

Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

Richard M. Nixon

Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of a student, soldier, or police officer-is a precious thing, and the taking of a life can be justified only as a necessary and last resort.

Richard M. Nixon

As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. [No Jew] can be right on the criminal-law issue.

Richard Schickel

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

Rebel Wilson

I never thought I would end up being an actress. I thought I really was going to do serious stuff like law or politics.

Robert Byrd

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

Richard Price

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

Richard Rohr

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

Richard Lamm

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

Tullian Tchividjian

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

Tullian Tchividjian

When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.

Tullian Tchividjian

The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.

Tullian Tchividjian

The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.

Tullian Tchividjian

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

Tupac Shakur

My cellmate's raped on the norm, and passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole getting torn.