Quotes with sister-in-law

Quotes 301 till 320 of 458.

  • Barry Commoner The First Law of Ecology: Everything Is Connected to Everything Else.... The Second Law of Ecology: Everything Must Go Somewhere.... The Third Law of Ecology: Nature Knows Best.... The Fourth Law of Ecology: There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.
    The Closing Circle
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Alexander Cockburn The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Mrs. Humphrey Ward The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
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  • Bill Cosby The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called good fighting generals of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life. There were of course exceptions and I suppose one was Plumer; I had only once seen him and I had never spoken to him.
    Regarding the generals of the First World War. 1
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Robert Alan The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.
    Robert Alan
    American singer/songwriter and comic book creator (1971 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The good of the people is the greatest law.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee 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 Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The highest virtue is always against the law.
    Conduct of Life (1876) Worship
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Sagan The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Edward Coke The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
    Prohibitions del Roy
    Edward Coke
    English barrister, judge and politician (1552 - 1634)
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  • David Hume The law always limits every power it gives.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Vauvenargues The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Adolf Loos The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Aristotle The law is reason, free from passion.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Quentin Crisp The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Raymond Chandler The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Joseph Edward Murphy The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.
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