We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Charles DarwinBetter to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Robert SchullerThe law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
Martin BuberIn no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously [on cricket]
Neville CardusAnd while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew CarnegieMiracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C S LewisThere isn't a flaw in his golf or his make-up [on Tiger Woods]
Jack NicklausMy mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.
Tim AllenCommon sense often makes good law.
William O DouglasWhat prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
James MadisonTwo things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Imannuel KantLawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Charles LambHow I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
Barbra StreisandDiscourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham LincolnJustice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
William GaddisMoralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Henry MillerEventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
Karen AllenThere was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Norman MailerThere can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
Ayn RandThey proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter, with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it, from whom?
Ayn RandGenerally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.
William BrewsterIt is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is
MontaigneIf the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles DarwinDiego Maradona - a flawed genius who has now become a genius who is flawed.
Bob WilsonHe keeps chucking me the ball, which is an absolute pain in the arse. [on brother in law Craig White]
Darren Lehmann'If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.'
Charles DickensI would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Sir Thomas MoreHuman judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Arthur C ClarkeA lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
George HerbertWhatever 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 LetwinIn law, nothing is certain but the expense.
Samuel ButlerIn point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
Thorstein VeblenIf 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 SmallI don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.
Margaret ThatcherWho will protect the public when the police violate the law?
Ramsey ClarkOne general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
Charles DarwinMarriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
Richard PryorI am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.
Isambard Kingdom BrunelThe double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.
Albert PikeThe daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat.
Michel De MontaigneWe 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 ReaganThe only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn RandThe uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.
H G Wells'Make America what we want it to be — a literate country and a hopefuller country.' —Washington, D.C., Jan. 11, 2001
'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
'I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.'
Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000
'The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.'
Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
'They misunderestimated me.'
Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
'The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.'
-All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000
BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
-Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 2000
'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?'
-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
'This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.'
-Speaking during 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
'What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody
else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000
'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?'
-Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
'Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.'
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'I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.'
-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
George W Bush
There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
Sean O'Casey
I did break the law... I was wrong... drugs are wrong
Jacqui Smith
The man that has no friend at court,
Must make the laws confine his sport,
But he that has, by dint of flaws,
may make his sport confine the laws.
Thomas Chatterton
No 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 Roosevelt
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Charles Darwin
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Tacitus
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