Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Kafka

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

Erica Jong

Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

Erica Jong

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

Erica Jong

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

And even one life that bears witness to the truth of the prosperity law will quicken the consciousness of the whole community.

Enrico Fermi

It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!

George Eliot

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

Gary Shapiro

Consumers are realizing the benefits of in-car entertainment and navigation systems. When used properly, these products are great tools that help drivers focus on the road. Consumers need to remember to follow state laws, watch the road and use common sense when putting these and other products to work.

Franz Liszt

The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society. He is at the bottom of...every enterprise that will demolish first of all thrones, afterwards the altar, afterwards civil law.

Frank Knight

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.

George J. Mitchell

I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness.

George Herbert

Feare, the Bedle of the Law.

George Herbert

Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine.

George Herbert

A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.

Christopher Bond

If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy.

Christopher Bond

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

Christie Hefner

I expected to go into journalism or law.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Chris Pratt

We cannot judge of the fact, but the law upon the fact.

Chris Hayes

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

George W. Bush

I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them.

George W. Bush

The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us.

George W. Bush

I've directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and bring them to justice. We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.

George W. Bush

Here in the United States our Muslim citizens are making many contributions in business, science and law, medicine and education, and in other fields...[they are]upholding our nation's ideals of liberty and justice in a world at peace.

George W. Bush

The law I sign today directs new funds and new focus to the task of collecting vital intelligence on terrorist threats and on weapons of mass production.

George W. Bush

International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me.

George W. Bush

We don't talk about sources and methods. Don't talk about ongoing intelligence operations. I know there's speculation. But it's important for the American people to understand that I will use my powers to protect us, and I will do so under the law, and that's important for our citizens to understand.

George Stigler

Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

George Soros

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

George Soros

Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.

George Soros

The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.

George Reisman

Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

George Orwell

All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep.