Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Newman

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

Paul Newman

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

Paul Newman

There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

Paul Broun

We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

Paul Begala

Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.

Masanobu Fukuoka

Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.

Martha Griffiths

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Mark Helprin

A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.

Marion Nestle

There are loopholes big enough to drive trucks through. And Congress needs to take a look at those laws and make sure that they're much more rigorous.

Oswald Chambers

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

Michel de Montaigne

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

Michel de Montaigne

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

Michel de Montaigne

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

Michel de Montaigne

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

Michel de Montaigne

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

Michel de Montaigne

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

Michel de Montaigne

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

Michel de Montaigne

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Michel de Montaigne

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

Michael Sandel

The majority of American states had laws by the 1930s that allowed for forced sterilization of socially undesirable categories of people, so-called feeble-minded, for example, and with Hitler culminating in genocide.

Michael Newdow

One day I was just looking at the coins is what brought this up. I saw "In God We Trust" on my coins. I said, "I don't trust in God," what is this? And I recalled there was something in the Constitution that said you're not allowed to do that and so I did some research. And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit. It's a cool thing to do. Everyone should try it.

Mark Twain

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

Mark Twain

The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

Mark Twain

Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.

Mark Twain

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

Marianne Williamson

We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply seek to manage the effects of hatred, which does need to be done, of course. But if all we do is manage the effects of hatred, then hatred will simply stalk us the next decade or the next generation. We need to dismantle hatred itself.

Marianne Williamson

What we give, we will receive, and what we withhold will be withheld from us.

Mark Levin

The Statist has constructed a Rube Goldberg array of laws and policies that have institutionalized his objectives. His success breeds confidence in the limitlessness of his endeavors.

Mark Levin

Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will consult foreign law and foreign-court rulings for guidance in certain circumstances. Of course, policymakers are free to consult whatever they want, but not justices. They're limited to the Constitution and the law.

Mario Cuomo

The truth is the justice system does need review, there are troubling questions that need to be answered, law enforcement needs to respect the community and the community needs to respect law enforcement.

Marilyn Manson

Law is only what is popular. Not what's right or wrong.

George Carman

Law is a very addictive profession.

Christopher Darden

That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.