Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.

Sean Penn

Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.

Li Keqiang

No matter who you are or what you intend to do, you should not exceed the boundaries of the rule of law.

Les Claypool

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

Lenny Bruce

You got a million drug laws now because the bosses figured there was more money in putting people in jail than taxing something anyone can grow on a window sill.

Lee Iacocca

They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.

Lara Flynn Boyle

I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.

L. Ron Hubbard

Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.

Thomas Aquinas

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

Thomas Aquinas

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

Terry Pratchett

Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.

Terry Eagleton

If there are indeed any iron laws of history, one of them is surely that in any major crisis of the capitalist system, a sector of the liberal middle class will shift to the left, and then shift smartly back again once the crisis has blown over.

Terri Sewell

Dont count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.

Terence McKenna

It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.

Terence McKenna

This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.

Randall Jarrell

If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.

Randall Terry

You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.

Randall Terry

The Bible is the supreme law that all governments must obey.

Randall Terry

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

Randall Terry

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest virtue is always against the law.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

Selma Blair

I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.

Sean M. Carroll

We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not want to be reduced to accepting the strange features of our universe as brute facts.

Sean Hannity

Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!

Scott McClellan

Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials and Border Patrol agents to focus on those who are coming here for the wrong reasons, the criminals and the drug dealers and the terrorists.

Shirin Ebadi

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

Shimon Peres

We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice.

Lesley Stahl

It is actually against the law for a citizen to give money to a terrorist.