In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.
- Diane Abbott
It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
- Floyd Abrams
When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
- Floyd Abrams
Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.
- Floyd Abrams
I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.
- Floyd Abrams
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
- John Lennon
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
- Jacob Bronowski
The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton's thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the 'discovery' of the laws of gravity.
- Jacob Bronowski
There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.
- Kathy Acker
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant?...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.
- Diane Ackerman
You snuck across my yard like a trained mercenary. Dressed in a black getup without so much as a pebble misplaced under your shoe or a crinkled leaf to make a sound. Had the lay of the land within seconds too I bet. Took down a man who outweighs you by fifty pounds as if you done it before. You hardly flinched when I set my gun on you. Now you're sittin' there all hunched around yourself like a rabbit in the grass. Definitely runnin' I just hope it's not from the law.
- Jocelyn Adams
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
- Henry Brooks Adams
There were three of them, three police cars left askew across the road in a way that transcended mere parking. It sent out a massive signal to the world saying that the law was here now taking charge of things, and that anyone who just had normal, good and cheerful business to conduct in Lupton Road could just fuck off.
- Douglas Adams
The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
- John Adams
We 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 Reagan
It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
- Ronald Reagan
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
- Samuel Adams
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
- Freda Adler
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
- Freda Adler
Be 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.
- Aeschines
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
- Aeschines
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.
- Mohammed Saeed Al Sahaf
It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.
- Paulo Coelho
According to the laws of nature, one should destroy the other, but in love neither good nor evil, there is neither construction nor destruction, there is merely movement. And love changes the laws of nature.
- Paulo Coelho
If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.
- Paulo Coelho
Where is the line? We're taught to stand up for ourselves; we're taught to stand up for others we care about. But all of a sudden, there's a new line drawn by the law. You sit back, it says, and let us deal with this.
- Jodi Picoult
What good is the legal process if people can decide their motives are bigger than the law?
- Jodi Picoult
...we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night- because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than the law.
- Jodi Picoult
But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?
- Jodi Picoult
What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?
- Jodi Picoult
Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do."
I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?"
She looked down at her lap "Yeah."
Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me?
- Jodi Picoult
Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.
- Jodi Picoult
You know, if you monitored the humidity a little better in here, you might reduce the irritants.'
'I assume you're referring to the mites, and not the lawyers.
- Jodi Picoult
Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.
- Jodi Picoult
Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.
- Louisa May Alcott
The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
- Alexander Alekhine
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
- Shana Alexander
The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
- Shana Alexander
The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.
- Jesse Jackson
What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
- Jesse Jackson
The laws are stacked for the wealthy.
- Jesse Jackson
All Being within this order, by the laws
of its own nature is impelled to find
its proper station round its Primal Cause.
Thus every nature moves across the tide
of the great sea of being to its own port,
each with its given instinct as its guide.
- Dante Alighieri
It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.
- Cassandra Clare
Will looked as if she had slpped him. "I didn't do it so you'd be grateful!"
"Then what?" Her voice rose. "You did it because it's your mandate? Because the law says-"
"I did it because I love you!
- Cassandra Clare
The Law is hard, but it is the Law.
- Cassandra Clare
The Law may be hard but it's the law.
- Cassandra Clare
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.
- Ethan Allen
Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.
- James Allen
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.
- James Allen
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
- James Allen
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
- James Allen
The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.
- Richard V Allen
They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.
- Tom Allen
Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.
- Isabel Allende
This isn't just a job. This is a service profession. We uphold the law, babe.
Ranger
- Janet Evanovich
I am the woman who lost herself but now is found, the lesbian, outside the law of the church and man, the one who has to love herself or die. If you are not as strong as I am, what will be make together? I am all muscle and wounded desire, and I need to know how strong we both can be.
- Dorothy Allison
I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.
- Stephen Colbert
If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people.
- Justin Amash
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
- B R Ambedkar
I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.
- Aldrich Ames
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.
- Heraclitus
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
- A R Ammons
What is it about men, anyway? You can't live with 'em and the law frowns on neutering them. It's not exactly a win-win situation.
- Susan Andersen
I found her lying naked on the lawn at midnight, can I keep her?
- R J Anderson
I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.
- Margaret Anderson
The judge's massive eyebrows crept up. "Kaldar. Are you the one speaking for the plaintiff today?"
"Yes, Your Honor."
"Well, shit," Dobe said. "I guess you're familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its house on fire, and got its sister pregnant.
- Ilona Andrews
Well, shit," Dobe said. "I guess you're familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its house on fire, and got its sister pregnant.
- Ilona Andrews
A cowboy, a lawyer, and a mechanic watched Queen of the Damned," I murmured.
Warrenwho had once, a long time ago, been a cowboysnickered and wiggled his bare feet. "It could be the beginning of either a bad joke or a horror story."
"No," said Kyle, the lawyer, whose head was propped up on my thigh. "If you want a horror story, you have to start out with a werewolf, his gorgeous lover, and a walker.
- Patricia Briggs
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
- Hermann Hesse
It is treason to sacrifice love of truth, intellectual honesty, loyalty to the laws and methods of the mind, to any other interests, including those of one's country.
- Hermann Hesse
I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.
- Kenneth Anger
It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
- Kofi Annan
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
- Jean Anouilh
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.
- Thomas Jefferson
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
- Thomas Jefferson
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
- Thomas Jefferson
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.
- Thomas Jefferson
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- Thomas Jefferson
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
- Thomas Jefferson
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- Plato
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.
- Plato
Smiles like that should be against the law. Considering what they do to a girl.
- Meg Cabot
The law is reason, free from passion.
- Aristotle
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
- Aristotle
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- Aristotle
We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
During war, the laws are silent.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
- Matthew Arnold
The basic principles of logic dictate that a statement cannot be both true and false at the same time... and that a statement must be either true or false... Lucy is lying, or she is crazy, or she is telling the truth. She can't be some combination, and she can't be none of those things... The laws of logic dictate that she must be one of them... Notice how practical common sense about the suposed impossibility of other worlds doesn't come into the equation.
- Sarah Arthur
She's a badass motherf**keress. She'd kick your ass soon as look at you. You've clapped your eyes on The Law. Count yourself lucky, sucker. Now, what'll it f**kin'be?
- Kristen Ashley
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.
- Isaac Asimov
Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.
- Steve Maraboli
We need more than just the Law of Attraction. We need to connect with its more successful twin, the Law of Generosity. And further entwine ourselves with their parent; the Law of Love.
- Steve Maraboli
Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
- Jane Austen
I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.
- Paul Auster
Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt for the acts of strangers, that strangers made the laws of the land, that the laws of the land valued things over life, that life ended if a stranger decided it, to be where she could be found, to feel one thing and do another. How could she hang so many contradictions in one skull
- Steve Aylett
The law is where reality goes to die.
- Steve Aylett
If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.
- Kelly Ayotte
Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it.
- Kelly Ayotte
We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.
- Jose Maria Aznar
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
- Charles Babbage
Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.
- Bruce Babbitt
He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.
"Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?"
"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.
- Richard Bach
I was born Katie O'Reilly," she began. "Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my heels." Titanic Rhapsody
- Jina Bacarr
It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
- Booker T Washington
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
- Arthur Baer
I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
- F Lee Bailey
When I thought about the calibre of people in the room I realized we might just have a credible candidate for Mayor who will would finally enforce the laws of the city. It was almost too good to be true.
- Herbert Baker
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
- Ray Stannard Baker
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.
- Mikhail Bakunin
I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and justice. No year of life is emotionally, spiritually or even materially, all drought or all rainfall; nor is it all sun. The road turns a little every day, and one day there's a sudden twist we didn't dream was there, and for every loss there is somewhere a gain, for every grief a happiness, for every deprivation a giving.
- Faith Baldwin
The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
The great mass of society are far from being depraved; for if a large majority were criminal or inclined to break the laws, where would the force or power be to prevent or constrain them? And herein is the real blessing of civilization, because this happy result has its origin in her bosom, growing out of her very nature.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.
- Banksy
Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.
- Michael D Barnes
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
- Richard Barnfield
Fifty dorcas they're setting up an ambush near my ship. (Nykyrian)
No bet. I know they are. They're too stupid to not be obvious and predictable. Gah, I hate abiding by the law. Too bad you can't slaughter them where they stand. (Syn)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
This isn't a game, human. Listen to the Skotos and go. We're not bound by the laws of the Oneroi. Killing humans is nothing for us. (Dolophoni)
Well, aren't you all scary in black. Ooo. What are you two masquerading as? Evil Man and his trusty sidekick Bad Boy? (Geary)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
In case you haven't noticed, they're moving a lot faster. I don't know about the laws of physics on your planet, but where I come from an object moving at subclass speed can't catch up to one running at starclass. But if you know something about turbines, thrusters and engines, quantum or classical physics that I've somehow missed, then please enlighten me.
- Caillen Dagan to Desideria Denarii
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
- Dave Barry
Romania will always defend the Roma's right to move freely in Europe. They are European citizens and as long as there is no evidence they broke the law they should enjoy the same rights of any European citizen.
- Traian Basescu
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?
- Frederic Bastiat
Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.
- Georges Bataille
Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you were between getting out of the military and... going to jail. Anybody could be a cook, just like anybody could mow the lawn.
- Mario Batali
...It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil..
- L Frank Baum
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
- Charles M Schulz
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
- Jean Paul
Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed.
- Roy Bean
I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.
- Roy Bean
Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
- Simone De Beauvoir
Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, I don't want to be just another blade of grass.
- Simone De Beauvoir
For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. If the judge were constrained, or if he desired to frame even a single additional syllogism, the door would thereby be opened to uncertainty.
- Cesare Beccaria
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
- Ulrich Beck
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
- Albert Camus
But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders.
- Lemony Snicket
But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.
- Lemony Snicket
I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
- Monica Bellucci
I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
- Warren Bennis
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
- Jeremy Bentham
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;in that of poets of amusementin that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.
- Jeremy Bentham
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
- Jeremy Bentham
The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law.
- Philip E Berger
Is it against the law for me to know it?
- Haruki Murakami
Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.
- Kate Bernheimer
The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.
- Marion Berry
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
- Wendell Berry
Sorry officer, today I'm not in the mood to break the laws.
- Toba Beta
It is true that nobody is above the law,
but power can make somebody invisible.
- Toba Beta
Nobody's sane above the law.
- Toba Beta
In the absence of law, winner is the law maker.
- Toba Beta
The logic of thought is derivative of the laws of nature.
Laws of nature is subject to the idea that creates nature.
- Toba Beta
Out there, in no man's territory, there is no law as you know.
Therefore you should create your own laws and enforce them.
If not, prepare to be hunted or...subject to the laws of strangers.
- Toba Beta
When you really believe that using sword can kill people,
that's when you will be subject to the law of the sword,
those who use the sword will die by the sword.
- Toba Beta
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
- Ambrose Bierce
Lawyer One skilled in the circumvention of the law.
- Ambrose Bierce
The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you so don't play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr accept the fact that you're a criminal & be prepared to act like one.
- Hakim Bey
We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.
- Cofer Black
She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.
- Holly Black
It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.
- R D Blackmore
So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
- William Blackstone
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
- William Blackstone
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.
- William Blackstone
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
- John Dryden
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
- John Dryden
It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.
- Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.
- Michael Bloomberg
Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.
- Michael Bloomberg
I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent.
- Nellie Bly
I think the government should do everything they possibly can to, to bring this crisis to an end; and that means going after BP, enforcing the laws that are on the books, and restoring the gulf to its original condition.
- John Boehner
Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.
- Anne Boleyn
The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.
- Robert Bolt
Thomas More:...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
- Robert Bolt
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
- Thomas More
The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
- Andrew Jackson
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
- Andrew Jackson
While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.
- Kit Bond
Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and the law of grace. In our effort to combat legalism we land ourselves in the worst kind of legalism. The only way of overcoming this legalism is by real obedience to Christ when he calls us to follow him; for in Jesus the law is at once fulfilled and cancelled.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Justification is the means whereby we appropriate the saving act of God in the past, and sanctification the promise of God's activity in the present and future...Justification is primarily concerned with the relation between man and the law of God, sanctification with the Christian's separation from the world until the second coming of Christ...Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification is his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sadness isn't a kilesha, a habit pattern evoked by challenge. Sadness is what the mind feels when it is bereaved or bereft. All the wisdom in the world about the inevitability of change or the lawfulness of karma does not ease the heaviness in the mind that we feel when we lose someone, or something, we hold dear [p. 148].
- Sylvia Boorstein
ABRAHAM: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
SAMPSON [Aside to Gregory]: Is the law of our side, if I say ay?
GREGORY [Aside to Sampson]: No.
SAMPSON: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.
- William Shakespeare
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
- William Shakespeare
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
- Robert Bork
Nature has given woman so much power that the law cannot afford to give her more.
- Samuel Johnson
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
- Samuel Johnson
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"
He laughed. "That's against the law!"
"Oh. Of course.
- Ray Bradbury
He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with
the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Ray Bradbury
He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.
- Ray Bradbury
The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching,' he said. 'The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.
- Ray Bradbury
Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.
- Ray Bradbury
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.
- Rick Boucher
The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
- James Bovard
This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.
- James Bovard
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
If I, who am rhu'ad, do not break the laws," she said, "then no one will ever dare to break them, and our planet will stagnate in dead traditions.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
- Louis D Brandeis
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D Brandeis
What was it about Eric? He was handsome and talented, yeah. But lots of guys were. She had adored Billy Klein back in Alabama the summer before, and she had even felt attracted to him, but it wasn't like this. What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.
- Ann Brashares
What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.
- Ann Brashares
- Diane Abbott
It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
- Floyd Abrams
When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
- Floyd Abrams
Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.
- Floyd Abrams
I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.
- Floyd Abrams
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
- John Lennon
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
- Jacob Bronowski
The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton's thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the 'discovery' of the laws of gravity.
- Jacob Bronowski
There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.
- Kathy Acker
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant?...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.
- Diane Ackerman
You snuck across my yard like a trained mercenary. Dressed in a black getup without so much as a pebble misplaced under your shoe or a crinkled leaf to make a sound. Had the lay of the land within seconds too I bet. Took down a man who outweighs you by fifty pounds as if you done it before. You hardly flinched when I set my gun on you. Now you're sittin' there all hunched around yourself like a rabbit in the grass. Definitely runnin' I just hope it's not from the law.
- Jocelyn Adams
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
- Henry Brooks Adams
There were three of them, three police cars left askew across the road in a way that transcended mere parking. It sent out a massive signal to the world saying that the law was here now taking charge of things, and that anyone who just had normal, good and cheerful business to conduct in Lupton Road could just fuck off.
- Douglas Adams
The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
- John Adams
We 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 Reagan
It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
- Ronald Reagan
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
- Samuel Adams
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
- Freda Adler
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
- Freda Adler
Be 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.
- Aeschines
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
- Aeschines
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.
- Mohammed Saeed Al Sahaf
It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.
- Paulo Coelho
According to the laws of nature, one should destroy the other, but in love neither good nor evil, there is neither construction nor destruction, there is merely movement. And love changes the laws of nature.
- Paulo Coelho
If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.
- Paulo Coelho
Where is the line? We're taught to stand up for ourselves; we're taught to stand up for others we care about. But all of a sudden, there's a new line drawn by the law. You sit back, it says, and let us deal with this.
- Jodi Picoult
What good is the legal process if people can decide their motives are bigger than the law?
- Jodi Picoult
...we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night- because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than the law.
- Jodi Picoult
But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?
- Jodi Picoult
What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?
- Jodi Picoult
Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do."
I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?"
She looked down at her lap "Yeah."
Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me?
- Jodi Picoult
Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.
- Jodi Picoult
You know, if you monitored the humidity a little better in here, you might reduce the irritants.'
'I assume you're referring to the mites, and not the lawyers.
- Jodi Picoult
Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.
- Jodi Picoult
Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.
- Louisa May Alcott
The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
- Alexander Alekhine
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
- Shana Alexander
The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
- Shana Alexander
The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.
- Jesse Jackson
What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
- Jesse Jackson
The laws are stacked for the wealthy.
- Jesse Jackson
All Being within this order, by the laws
of its own nature is impelled to find
its proper station round its Primal Cause.
Thus every nature moves across the tide
of the great sea of being to its own port,
each with its given instinct as its guide.
- Dante Alighieri
It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.
- Cassandra Clare
Will looked as if she had slpped him. "I didn't do it so you'd be grateful!"
"Then what?" Her voice rose. "You did it because it's your mandate? Because the law says-"
"I did it because I love you!
- Cassandra Clare
The Law is hard, but it is the Law.
- Cassandra Clare
The Law may be hard but it's the law.
- Cassandra Clare
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.
- Ethan Allen
Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.
- James Allen
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.
- James Allen
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
- James Allen
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
- James Allen
The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.
- Richard V Allen
They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.
- Tom Allen
Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.
- Isabel Allende
This isn't just a job. This is a service profession. We uphold the law, babe.
Ranger
- Janet Evanovich
I am the woman who lost herself but now is found, the lesbian, outside the law of the church and man, the one who has to love herself or die. If you are not as strong as I am, what will be make together? I am all muscle and wounded desire, and I need to know how strong we both can be.
- Dorothy Allison
I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.
- Stephen Colbert
If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people.
- Justin Amash
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
- B R Ambedkar
I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.
- Aldrich Ames
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.
- Heraclitus
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
- A R Ammons
What is it about men, anyway? You can't live with 'em and the law frowns on neutering them. It's not exactly a win-win situation.
- Susan Andersen
I found her lying naked on the lawn at midnight, can I keep her?
- R J Anderson
I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.
- Margaret Anderson
The judge's massive eyebrows crept up. "Kaldar. Are you the one speaking for the plaintiff today?"
"Yes, Your Honor."
"Well, shit," Dobe said. "I guess you're familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its house on fire, and got its sister pregnant.
- Ilona Andrews
Well, shit," Dobe said. "I guess you're familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its house on fire, and got its sister pregnant.
- Ilona Andrews
A cowboy, a lawyer, and a mechanic watched Queen of the Damned," I murmured.
Warrenwho had once, a long time ago, been a cowboysnickered and wiggled his bare feet. "It could be the beginning of either a bad joke or a horror story."
"No," said Kyle, the lawyer, whose head was propped up on my thigh. "If you want a horror story, you have to start out with a werewolf, his gorgeous lover, and a walker.
- Patricia Briggs
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
- Hermann Hesse
It is treason to sacrifice love of truth, intellectual honesty, loyalty to the laws and methods of the mind, to any other interests, including those of one's country.
- Hermann Hesse
I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.
- Kenneth Anger
It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
- Kofi Annan
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
- Jean Anouilh
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.
- Thomas Jefferson
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
- Thomas Jefferson
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
- Thomas Jefferson
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.
- Thomas Jefferson
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- Thomas Jefferson
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
- Thomas Jefferson
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- Plato
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.
- Plato
Smiles like that should be against the law. Considering what they do to a girl.
- Meg Cabot
The law is reason, free from passion.
- Aristotle
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
- Aristotle
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- Aristotle
We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
During war, the laws are silent.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
- Matthew Arnold
The basic principles of logic dictate that a statement cannot be both true and false at the same time... and that a statement must be either true or false... Lucy is lying, or she is crazy, or she is telling the truth. She can't be some combination, and she can't be none of those things... The laws of logic dictate that she must be one of them... Notice how practical common sense about the suposed impossibility of other worlds doesn't come into the equation.
- Sarah Arthur
She's a badass motherf**keress. She'd kick your ass soon as look at you. You've clapped your eyes on The Law. Count yourself lucky, sucker. Now, what'll it f**kin'be?
- Kristen Ashley
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.
- Isaac Asimov
Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.
- Steve Maraboli
We need more than just the Law of Attraction. We need to connect with its more successful twin, the Law of Generosity. And further entwine ourselves with their parent; the Law of Love.
- Steve Maraboli
Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
- Jane Austen
I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.
- Paul Auster
Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt for the acts of strangers, that strangers made the laws of the land, that the laws of the land valued things over life, that life ended if a stranger decided it, to be where she could be found, to feel one thing and do another. How could she hang so many contradictions in one skull
- Steve Aylett
The law is where reality goes to die.
- Steve Aylett
If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.
- Kelly Ayotte
Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it.
- Kelly Ayotte
We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.
- Jose Maria Aznar
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
- Charles Babbage
Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.
- Bruce Babbitt
He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.
"Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?"
"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.
- Richard Bach
I was born Katie O'Reilly," she began. "Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my heels." Titanic Rhapsody
- Jina Bacarr
It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
- Booker T Washington
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
- Arthur Baer
I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
- F Lee Bailey
When I thought about the calibre of people in the room I realized we might just have a credible candidate for Mayor who will would finally enforce the laws of the city. It was almost too good to be true.
- Herbert Baker
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
- Ray Stannard Baker
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.
- Mikhail Bakunin
I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and justice. No year of life is emotionally, spiritually or even materially, all drought or all rainfall; nor is it all sun. The road turns a little every day, and one day there's a sudden twist we didn't dream was there, and for every loss there is somewhere a gain, for every grief a happiness, for every deprivation a giving.
- Faith Baldwin
The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
The great mass of society are far from being depraved; for if a large majority were criminal or inclined to break the laws, where would the force or power be to prevent or constrain them? And herein is the real blessing of civilization, because this happy result has its origin in her bosom, growing out of her very nature.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.
- Banksy
Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.
- Michael D Barnes
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
- Richard Barnfield
Fifty dorcas they're setting up an ambush near my ship. (Nykyrian)
No bet. I know they are. They're too stupid to not be obvious and predictable. Gah, I hate abiding by the law. Too bad you can't slaughter them where they stand. (Syn)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
This isn't a game, human. Listen to the Skotos and go. We're not bound by the laws of the Oneroi. Killing humans is nothing for us. (Dolophoni)
Well, aren't you all scary in black. Ooo. What are you two masquerading as? Evil Man and his trusty sidekick Bad Boy? (Geary)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
In case you haven't noticed, they're moving a lot faster. I don't know about the laws of physics on your planet, but where I come from an object moving at subclass speed can't catch up to one running at starclass. But if you know something about turbines, thrusters and engines, quantum or classical physics that I've somehow missed, then please enlighten me.
- Caillen Dagan to Desideria Denarii
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
- Dave Barry
Romania will always defend the Roma's right to move freely in Europe. They are European citizens and as long as there is no evidence they broke the law they should enjoy the same rights of any European citizen.
- Traian Basescu
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?
- Frederic Bastiat
Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.
- Georges Bataille
Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you were between getting out of the military and... going to jail. Anybody could be a cook, just like anybody could mow the lawn.
- Mario Batali
...It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil..
- L Frank Baum
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
- Charles M Schulz
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
- Jean Paul
Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed.
- Roy Bean
I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.
- Roy Bean
Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
- Simone De Beauvoir
Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, I don't want to be just another blade of grass.
- Simone De Beauvoir
For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. If the judge were constrained, or if he desired to frame even a single additional syllogism, the door would thereby be opened to uncertainty.
- Cesare Beccaria
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
- Ulrich Beck
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
- Albert Camus
But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders.
- Lemony Snicket
But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.
- Lemony Snicket
I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
- Monica Bellucci
I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
- Warren Bennis
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
- Jeremy Bentham
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;in that of poets of amusementin that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.
- Jeremy Bentham
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
- Jeremy Bentham
The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law.
- Philip E Berger
Is it against the law for me to know it?
- Haruki Murakami
Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.
- Kate Bernheimer
The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.
- Marion Berry
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
- Wendell Berry
Sorry officer, today I'm not in the mood to break the laws.
- Toba Beta
It is true that nobody is above the law,
but power can make somebody invisible.
- Toba Beta
Nobody's sane above the law.
- Toba Beta
In the absence of law, winner is the law maker.
- Toba Beta
The logic of thought is derivative of the laws of nature.
Laws of nature is subject to the idea that creates nature.
- Toba Beta
Out there, in no man's territory, there is no law as you know.
Therefore you should create your own laws and enforce them.
If not, prepare to be hunted or...subject to the laws of strangers.
- Toba Beta
When you really believe that using sword can kill people,
that's when you will be subject to the law of the sword,
those who use the sword will die by the sword.
- Toba Beta
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
- Ambrose Bierce
Lawyer One skilled in the circumvention of the law.
- Ambrose Bierce
The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you so don't play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr accept the fact that you're a criminal & be prepared to act like one.
- Hakim Bey
We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.
- Cofer Black
She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.
- Holly Black
It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.
- R D Blackmore
So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
- William Blackstone
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
- William Blackstone
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.
- William Blackstone
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
- John Dryden
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
- John Dryden
It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.
- Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.
- Michael Bloomberg
Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.
- Michael Bloomberg
I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent.
- Nellie Bly
I think the government should do everything they possibly can to, to bring this crisis to an end; and that means going after BP, enforcing the laws that are on the books, and restoring the gulf to its original condition.
- John Boehner
Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.
- Anne Boleyn
The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.
- Robert Bolt
Thomas More:...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
- Robert Bolt
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
- Thomas More
The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
- Andrew Jackson
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
- Andrew Jackson
While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.
- Kit Bond
Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and the law of grace. In our effort to combat legalism we land ourselves in the worst kind of legalism. The only way of overcoming this legalism is by real obedience to Christ when he calls us to follow him; for in Jesus the law is at once fulfilled and cancelled.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Justification is the means whereby we appropriate the saving act of God in the past, and sanctification the promise of God's activity in the present and future...Justification is primarily concerned with the relation between man and the law of God, sanctification with the Christian's separation from the world until the second coming of Christ...Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification is his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sadness isn't a kilesha, a habit pattern evoked by challenge. Sadness is what the mind feels when it is bereaved or bereft. All the wisdom in the world about the inevitability of change or the lawfulness of karma does not ease the heaviness in the mind that we feel when we lose someone, or something, we hold dear [p. 148].
- Sylvia Boorstein
ABRAHAM: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
SAMPSON [Aside to Gregory]: Is the law of our side, if I say ay?
GREGORY [Aside to Sampson]: No.
SAMPSON: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.
- William Shakespeare
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
- William Shakespeare
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
- Robert Bork
Nature has given woman so much power that the law cannot afford to give her more.
- Samuel Johnson
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
- Samuel Johnson
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"
He laughed. "That's against the law!"
"Oh. Of course.
- Ray Bradbury
He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with
the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Ray Bradbury
He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.
- Ray Bradbury
The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching,' he said. 'The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.
- Ray Bradbury
Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.
- Ray Bradbury
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.
- Rick Boucher
The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
- James Bovard
This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.
- James Bovard
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
If I, who am rhu'ad, do not break the laws," she said, "then no one will ever dare to break them, and our planet will stagnate in dead traditions.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
- Louis D Brandeis
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D Brandeis
What was it about Eric? He was handsome and talented, yeah. But lots of guys were. She had adored Billy Klein back in Alabama the summer before, and she had even felt attracted to him, but it wasn't like this. What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.
- Ann Brashares
What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.
- Ann Brashares
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