Quotes with mother-in-law

Quotes 721 till 740 of 791.

  • Bernard Bailyn What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.
    Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Phyllis Schlafly What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant What I need is a lawyer who specializes in the law of the jungle.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Bernhard Schlink What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Mark Twain What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Mark Twain What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • James Joyce Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bobby Jindal When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • C. S. Forester When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
    Source: The African Queen (1935)
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Benjamin Harrison When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
    Source: State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Cate Blanchett When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Barney Frank When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Beth Ditto When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bonnie Bedelia When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Agnes Smedley When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli When I was eight, nine years of age, my mother bought me a pair of green trousers - corduroy green trousers. I didn't like green, and I basically buried them underground. And my mother kept asking me, 'Where are your trousers?' I said, 'Oh, I don't know.' And from then on I stopped wearing green.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Beau Mirchoff When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
    Beau Mirchoff
    Canadian-American actor (1989 - )
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