Quotes with in-laws

Quotes 181 till 200 of 240.

• The laws of business physics have been broken in terms of how many customers you can acquire and how fast. No one in history has ever acquired 450 million customers in the same amount of time that WhatsApp did.

  Ben Horowitz
  American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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• The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

  Edward Gibbon
  British historian (1737 - 1794)
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• The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.

  Abraham Cowley
  English poet (1618 - 1667)
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• The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

  Machiavelli
  Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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• The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

  Jean Paul
  German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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• The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

  Tacitus
  Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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• The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

  Olympia Brown
  American minister and suffragist (1835 - 1926)
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• The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

  Hannah Arendt
  German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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• The 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 Rand
  Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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• The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

  Andrew Jackson
  American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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• The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.

  Peace Pilgrim
  American activist, mystic and pacifist
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• The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

  Charles De Montesquieu
  French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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• The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

  Walt Whitman
  American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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• The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

  Frank Zappa
  American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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• The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

  Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.

  Remy de Gourmont
  French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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• There are a lot of laws from Europe about employing people which are absolute nonsense.

  Ben Elliot
  British politician (1975 - )
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• There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
  

  Stephen Hawking
  English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• interpreters
• overwhelming
• disobedience
• foundations
• statistical
• impressions

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