Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexis de Tocqueville

A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes to his own; ... This abnegation of his own opinion, and this implicit deference to the opinion of his forefathers, which are common to the English and American lawyer, this servitude of thought which he is obliged to profess, necessarily give him more timid habits and more conservative inclinations in England and America than in France.

Alexis de Tocqueville

When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

Alexandre Dumas

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

Liar, n.: A lawyer with a roving commission.

Richard G. Scott

The demands of justice for broken law can be satisfied throughmercy, earned by your continual repentance and obedience to the laws ofGod... Through the Atonement you can live in a world where justiceassures that you will retain what you earn by obedience.

Ricky Gervais

Famous people are above the law,

Susan B. Anthony

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.

Brian Ellis

Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting upon it? Of course. Does the chemist ever measure the mass of an atom by measuring its acceleration in a given field of force? Yes. Does the physicist ever determine the strength of a field by measuring the acceleration of a known mass in that field? Certainly. Why then, should any one of these roles be singled out as the role of Newton's second law of motion? The fact is that it has a variety of roles.

Brian Cox

The story of the universe finally comes to an end. For the first time in its life, the universe will be permanent and unchanging. Entropy finally stops increasing because the cosmos cannot get any more disordered. Nothing happens, and it keeps not happening, forever. It's what's known as the heat-death of the universe. An era when the cosmos will remain vast and cold and desolate for the rest of time the arrow of time has simply ceased to exist. It's an inescapable fact of the universe written into the fundamental laws of physics, the entire cosmos will die.

Booth Tarkington

Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.

Boris Johnson

When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.

Bob Corker

I'm a lawmaker, but I really don't like laws.

Bob Dylan

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

Bob Dylan

If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.

Billy Carter

Sometimes even lawyers need lawyers.

Bobby Fischer

Is it against the law to kill a reporter?

Bridget Riley

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

Brigitte Bardot

Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law.

Brigham Young

God never made something out of nothing; it is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist

Brigham Young

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Brigham Young

If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.

Brigham Young

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.

Brigham Young

I do not lift my voice against the great and glorious Government guaranteed to every citizen by the Constitution, but against those corrupt administrators who trample the Constitution and just laws under their feet.

Brigham Young

Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation.

Bruce Springsteen

The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.

Brian Tracy

Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.

Brian Tracy

The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.

Brian Jacques

Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right." —The law of Badger Lords

Brian Jacques

He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace!

Brian Aldiss

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

Boyd Rice

Don't shrink from natures brutal perfection. Take joy in it. Embrace it. Understand it and revel in it. Respect it's strength, it's wisdom, it's brutality and it's all-encompassing power. The highest law has always been, and shall be, nature; and the greatest wisdom forever lives in and through nature's eternal Fascism.

Jane D. Hull

The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.