I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
Harold GeneenA perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. [Too true!]
James DentThe trouble with law is lawyers.
Clarence DarrowI would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Sir Thomas MoreI was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.
Norman LammGo confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Henry David ThoreauAs I am a first-time blogger, perhaps I should note herein that I am a lawyer and a student of the Constitution.
John Jay HookerThe political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.
Dick ThornburghCivilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn RandI believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks and I would be prepared to go down to 20.
Michael HowardLaws, like houses, lean on one another.
Edmund BurkeThe stampede to collect Beanie Babies is the latest twist in the toy industries plot to turn children into avaricious monsters and adults into clawing harpies!
Beth VargoWe must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald ReaganI tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.
Bill ClintonIt is a law of Elis that any woman who is discovered at the Olympic Games will be pitched from this mountain.
Pausanias'It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.'
Meg RyanIf your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately.
Richard IngramsThe mass of the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.
Bishop Samuel HorsleyIf you had told me when I was growing up with the sus laws I could be so proud to be a Londoner, I would not have believed you.
Heather SmallGo, tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,
That here obedient to their laws we lie.
SimonidesThe more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
Lao TzuOne general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
Charles DarwinThere isn't a flaw in his golf or his make-up [on Tiger Woods]
Jack NicklausA lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
George HerbertNo great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
Emma GoldmanWhere there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Lin YutangDiego Maradona - a flawed genius who has now become a genius who is flawed.
Bob WilsonBe assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
AeschinesIn the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools
Doris LessingI did break the law... I was wrong... drugs are wrong
Jacqui SmithTony Blair was on Football Focus the other week and named me as one of his favourite players. My father-in-law phoned me and said 'I've never heard such rubbish!' - but I think it's great. I voted Lib-Dem last time but I'm Labour again now
Arjan De ZeeuwA lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Sir Walter ScottI think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
Adlai StevensonI admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
Dorothy L SayersCustom is the law of fools.
Sir John VanbrughAt least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Raymond ChandlerWe gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob BronowskiManners are stronger than laws
Thomas CarlyleIf the England selectors make the same mistakes Australia have, which is not to address the flaws when you're successful, then down the track you're going to have some problems
Ian ChappellIn the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Charles MontesquieuThe law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
Raymond ChandlerOn shooting American Outlaws: I kept saying 'Bang bang' and they kept having to cut.
Colin FarrellAct that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. [The Categorical Imperative]
Imannuel KantIt has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
Kofi AnnanIt is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
Henry L MenckenNo man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore RooseveltWhatever the commission wants to do to satisfy itself that everything is in conformity with the law, the Conservative party will assist it to do [on party loans]
Oliver LetwinOnce victim, always victim - that's the law!
Thomas HardyWriting has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself
Truman CapoteTime stands with impartial law
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