A Quotes
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“A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.”
“A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.”
“A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.”
“A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.”
“A laugh jumps out of my mouth, surprising me. I can’t even remember the last time I laughed and it puts me on edge. I suddenly want to do the same thing to her. Let her see how it feels to teeter on that cliff.”
Source: Charade
“A laugh lifestyle is predicated upon our attitude toward the daily stuff of life. When those tasks seem too dull to endure, figure out a way to make them fun; get creative and entertain yourself. If the stuff of life for you right now is not dull and boring but instead painful and overwhelming, find something in the midst of the pain that makes you smile or giggle anyway. There's always something somewhere. . . even if you have to just pretend to laugh until you really do!”
Source: The Best Devotions of Marilyn Meberg
“A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.”
“A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.”
“A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.”
“A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star.”
“A law against hating Jews is usually the beginning of the end for the Jews.”
“A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.”
“A Law cannot give to Bills that intrinsick Value, which the universal Consent of Mankind has annexed to Silver and Gold”
Source: Some Considerations of the Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value of Money
“A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.”
“A law is always that much more scary and that much more effective for a totalitarian state if it's selectively enforced.”
“A law is not a law without coercion behind it.”
“A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.”
Source: Black Like Me
“A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.”
“A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the "law" because they act in that way.”
“A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.”
Source: Leviathan, Parts I and II
“A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.”
“A law which excludes all dialectic and all reconciliation; which establishes, consequently, both the flawless unity of knowledge and the uncompromising division of tragic existence; it rules over a world without twilight, which knows no effusion, nor the attenuated cares of lyricism; everything must be either waking or dream, truth or darkness, the light of being or the nothingness of shadow.”
“A LAW, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound to observe. This results from every political association.”
Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers
“A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.”
“A lawman asking for bribe from a civilian to fulfill certain necessary paperwork, is committing injustice. A pervert who gropes and manhandles a woman in public transportation, is committing injustice. A college student who bullies the newcomers, is committing injustice. These are the injustice committed by ordinary people that occur around the world on a daily basis, all because the people around are either afraid or do not feel responsible enough to stand up to them. If they did, if you do, if only a handful of individuals in every corner of the society stand up to such everyday injustice, then we will witness a revolutionary decline in the very graph of crime and chaos all over the world.”
Source: Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law
“A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.”
Source: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
“A lawsuit is the suicide of time.”
“A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.”
Source: The Journalist And The Murderer
“A lawyer actually has to see all sides of a situation. Lawyers actually might be the most understanding human beings.”
“A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.”
Source: The Earlier Poems of William Wordsworth: Corrected as in the Latest Editions. With Preface, and Notes Showing the Text as it Stood in 1815
“A lawyer from Africa wants to marry Malia Obama in exchange for goats, sheep, and cows. In response, President Obama said, 'Don't be ridiculous. My daughter isn't marrying a lawyer.'”
“A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.”
“A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.”
“A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.”
“A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."”
“A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.”
“A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.”
“A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.”
“A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.”
Source: Mary, Mary
“A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the papers in his hands, and the attorney goes into the public records and finds everything right for three or four years back; but after a time he comes to a break in the title. So he finds that the man who supposed he owned it owns not an acre of the ground which belongs to someone else. I trace the title of this world from century to century until I find the whole right vested in God. Now to whom did he give it? To his own children. All are yours.”
“A lawyer once told a jury that the person his client stood accused of having killed was about to walk through the courtroom door. When the jurors looked startled, the lawyer asserted that if those jurors had wondered, even for one second that the victim might appear, that belief constituted enough reasonable doubt for them to find his client innocent.”
“A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?”
Source: The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
“A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.”
“A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.”
“A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.”
“A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.”
Source: Jefferson: Writings
“A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.”
“A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed
“A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair;
Honesty shines with great advantage there.”
Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel