The Law Quotes

I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: "However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you."

For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington.

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

Starting with [Ronald] Regan it became quite open, the attack on unions. It wasn't the Pinkertons anymore, but it was just not applying the laws.

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.

God is a creator, not a law giver.

Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.

Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.

Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.

Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee.

Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.

Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.

Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.

When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature.

What's the Christian-bashing all about? Simple- a struggle for the soul of America is under way, a struggle to determine whose views, values, beliefs and standards will serve as the basis of law.

Government was instituted by God to bring His laws to people and to carry out His will and purposes.

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

The real key to wealth is the gradual accumulation, it's something Jesus talked about I call the law of use and you couple with the exponential curve.

There's no law against a sentence existing in two places at once, unlike humans, who are no longer allowed to bilocate because it confuses the cops too much.

The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president, but only to the law.

You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.

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

When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.

Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.

If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity.

There's a long conversation we're going to have about how to enforce immigration laws. But physically securing the border is essential.

You can go back and rescind an old regulation like Obama era regulations. That was done once in 20 years. We've done 14 of them in law this year alone, because they can't filibuster that.

We're a humane country. We got to make sure that we find the intelligence. We have do it [protecting our boundaries] in a humane way following the law.

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.

You have to put your body on the line from time to time in order to make a statement or change a law.

I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced something that is dead. (1923)

It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.

Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation.

It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

In America, law substitutes for custom.

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.

Son-In-Law was kind of my crossover. It was the movie that brought me out of the MTV audience into the mainstream.

We worship God, but have no faith in the workings of God's laws of love. The world awaits the living of the law of love, which will reach the divine within all human beings and transform them.

Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world.

You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane!

Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.

If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.