Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwight Howard

That should come under the state's price-gouging law.

That's like saying we can't have privacy laws for telephones to protect the privacy of telephone conversations because that might spill over into other areas,

All beauteous things for which we liveBy laws of time and space decay.But oh, the very reason whyI clasp them, is because they die.

Charles M. Schulz

Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.

Every lawyer worth his salt is putting in a lethal injection challenge.

It is Virginia law that you have to move out of the way of the overtaking vehicle, even if they are speeding. I don't think a lot of people know that.

Thomas Jefferson

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jane Porter

Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness.

Jane Roberts

You each have the same energy and it sings within you. You need not be shy of it, it is your own. You need not look to gurus, or Gods, or Seths. It dwells within your own being.

Jane Roberts

Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness still sings.

Ethan Allen

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

Erik Paulsen

Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.

Cassandra Clare

Some Laws were meant to be broken.

Cassandra Clare

It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.

Cassandra Clare

The Law is hard, but it is the Law.

Carolyn Heilbrun

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

Kurt Loder

You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.

Frank Herbert

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

Frank Herbert

That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.

Frank Herbert

Law is the ultimate science.

Frank Herbert

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

Frank Herbert

Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth."

Frank Herbert

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.

Frank Herbert

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.

Frank Herbert

Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.

Frank Herbert

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

Frank Herbert

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

George H. W. Bush

Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.

H. Rap Brown

I consider myself neither legally nor morally bound to obey the laws made by a body in which I have no representation.

Jesse Ventura

I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.

Jesse Ventura

I will criticize President Obama on this level: it's a good thing I'm not president because I would prosecute every person that was involved in that torture. I would prosecute the people that did it. I would prosecute the people that ordered it. Because torture is against the law.

Jesse Ventura

You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

H. P. Lovecraft

All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.