Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Fitton

We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't go forward.

Tom DeMarco

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

Steve King

You might call that a peaceful invasion [of Muslims] but that`s the nicest thing can you call it. They`re not assimilating and they`re not assimilating because Sharia law is incompatible with the Constitution of the United States.

Steve King

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

Stephen Covey

Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior.

Stephen Covey

The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get.

Stephen Covey

Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.

Stephen Covey

The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

Vaclav Havel

The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.

V. S. Naipaul

The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.

Tarja Halonen

It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.

Stevie Wonder

As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.

Susan Jeffers

If you are not enjoying yourself, you are wasting time.

Susan Jeffers

Everyone in your life is a 'practise person.' How you react to them allows you to see what you have to work on within yourself.

Susan Jeffers

As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha. Life is joyous. Life is Light. Life is happy. You are awake at last.

Susan Jeffers

Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction and your ability to dance with life, depends solely on what you pay attention to.

Stuart Chase

The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

Steven Weinberg

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

Robert Boyle

God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.

Richard Stallman

The idea that laws decide what is right or wrong is mistaken in general. Laws are, at their best, an attempt to achieve justice; to say that laws define justice or ethical conduct is turning things upside down.

Richard Stallman

Laws that oppress people have no moral authority

Richard Grossman

You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth.

Richard Hamming

Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but the laws have later been found to apply over much wider ranges of observations and much more accurately than the original data justified.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have to respect the Turkish Republic's laws

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

Samora Machel

It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

Samuel Alito

I had the good fortune to begin my legal career as a law clerk for a judge who really epitomized open-mindedness and fairness. He read the record in detail in every single case that came before me; he insisted on scrupulously following precedents.

Samuel Adams

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

Sydney J. Harris

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

Ron Chernow

The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.

Tryon Edwards

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.