Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

Khalil Gibran

Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.

Jonathan Swift

Come, agree, the law's costly.

Jonathan Swift

It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.

Jonathan Swift

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

Jonathan Raban

Trouble defies the law of gravity. It's easier to pick up than to drop.

Jonathan Sacks

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

Narendra Modi

Rs 6500 crore disclosed under compliance window of black money & foreign assets law. People fear the law that has now been created. Stringent provisions will not be diluted despite pressures.

Napoleon Hill

Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction.

Napoleon Hill

Do not look for a miracle, because you will not find it. You will find only the eternal laws of nature. These laws are available to every person who has the faith and the courage to use them.

Napoleon Hill

The mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.

Napoleon Hill

Remember that your dominating focus attracts, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful of what you focus on.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We are nothing but by the law.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

Og Mandino

Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch of ground. Never has there been a parchment of law, however fair, which prevented one crime. Never has there been a scroll, even such as the one I hold, which so much as a penny or produced a single word of acclamation. Action, alone, is the tinder which ignites the map, the parchment, this scroll, my plans, my goals, into a living force. Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success. I will act now.

Norman Thomas

The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.

Norman Mailer

God is a creator, not a law giver.

Norman Lamm

At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.

Norman Lamm

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

Norman Lamm

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Law Number XLVIII: The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to spend doing what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all your time talking about nothing.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Law Number XLIV: Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a westerly direction, preferably supersonic, crossing time zones to provide the additional hours needed to fix the broken electronics.

Orrin Hatch

We should evaluate judges and judicial nominees based on the general process for applying the law to any legal disputes, not on the specific result in a particular case or dispute.

Orrin Hatch

We must use a judicial, rather than a political, standard to evaluate [a nominee's] fitness for the Supreme Court. That standard must be based on the fundamental principle that judges interpret and apply but do not make law.

Orson Pratt

Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God

Orson Welles

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Orson Welles

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.