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“In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.”

Has Beens Two Law Felt Christ Church Views Grace Special Type Benefits Married Privilege Being Married

Author:Bill Vaughan

“It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.”

May Law Spirit Principles Letters Conformity Arrangements Conform Loan Transparency

Author:Bill Vaughan

“There is no right by the federal or state constitution to manual recounts. There is no law that says that you must count dimpled ballots, constitutional or otherwise.”

States Law Constitution Ballots Manuals

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Uganda's Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law if its military tribunals ignore the orders of civilian courts.”

Ifs Law Order Nations Military Claims Court Trials Civilians Rule Of Law Tribunals Uganda

Author:Bill Vaughan

“There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.”

Men Light Earth Law Certain Courses Destiny Influence Events Strange Ordinary Seasons Mark Guides Comets Erratic Portents

Author:Bill Vaughan

“A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.”

May Form Law Games Decision Views Effort Moral Decided Court Golf Sunday

Author:Bill Vaughan

“It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.”

Ends Law Force Labor Sunday June Fisherman Labor Day

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.”

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Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!”

Ifs Feels Should Reason Would Be Spiritual Law Understanding Memories Hell Equal Conscious Madness Fancy Anarchy Our Memories Spiritual Beings

Author:John Milton

“I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It's universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I've learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.”

Giving Feels Believe Happens Law I Believe Prayer Higher Negative Universal I Believe In I've Learned Higher Power Universal Laws

Author:Alicia Keys

“Barack Obama's mother-in-law might be moving into the White House with him. Joe Biden was right. Hostile forces will test him in the first few months.”

Firsts Might Moving Law Mother House Force White Months Tests Barack White House Hostile In-laws Biden Mother In Law

Author:Jay Leno

“I once worked with Emma Thompsons mother, Phyllida Law. I worked with her on a BBC drama, and she was hilarious. I loved her so much, and she was great to work with.”

Law Mother Drama Emma

Author:Thomas Brodie-Sangster

“I have plenty of Law & Order on my resume.”

Law Order Plenty Resumes

Author:Jesse L. Martin

“I think more important than law is the hearts of people.”

People Thinking Heart Important Law

Author:Louis Gossett, Jr.

“No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang.”

Knows Bigs Law Universe Evidence Tests Physics Bangs Laws Of Physics

Author:Michio Kaku

“The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.”

Should Law Policy Attorney

Author:Michael Moriarty

“Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.”

Knows America Law Violence Drug Damn Law Enforcement Enforcement Inhumane Drug Laws

Author:Michael Moriarty

“I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.”

May Important Law Community Race Support Gun Honestly Minorities Gun Control Stopping Slaughter

Author:Juan Williams

“Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.”

Should Law Congress Executives Rejected Executing

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14.”

People Should Play Helping Law Father Should Have Sacred Very Good Lawyer Bars Joints Good Lawyer

Author:Max Weinberg

“They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.”

Law Actors Acting Watches Sausage

Author:Ed Asner

“It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.”

Persons Doe Law Natural Principles Effects

Author:Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

“The law of England is a law of liberty .”

Law Liberty England

Author:Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

“Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may not be Law carried. It would be urged in almost every case.”

Men May Would Be Law Cases Taken Ignorance Excuse Every Man Cognizant

Author:Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

“The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master.”

Men Law He Man Masters Tyranny

Book:The Autobiography

Source: The Autobiography

“Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.”

Giving May Country Law Moral Morality Slave Affection Tone Empires Customs Reign

Author:Aime Martin

“Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.”

Firsts Humans Heart Law Memories Human Heart Anguish Veils Craving Adjustment Merciful Grim Fugitive

Book:One After Another

Source: One After Another

“As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.”

Law All Things Lawyer Supremacy

Author:John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

“It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one.”

Should Important Law Cases Integrity Absolutes

Author:John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

“I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character.”

Thinking Men Should Character Law Impossible Occasions Rule Of Law

Author:John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

“Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.”

Law Mother Common Aim Certainty Mischief Repose Common Law

Author:Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

“A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so . . . but what a reasonable fine is, and who shall be the judge of it, the law has established no rule.”

Reason Law Judging Fine Reasonable

Author:Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

“There is nothing in the world that could make me turn from the law. With a clear conscience, I am prepared to answer for each and every one of my political and administrative orders and actions, and to do so before the court of public opinion.”

World Action Law Political Order Turns Answers Opinion Clear Conscience Court Prepared Public Opinion Administrative Clear Conscience

Author:Djemal Pasha

“In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster.”

Law Teaching Theory Educational Disaster Imitation Axioms Algebra

Author:Ivor Grattan-Guinness

“The laws of economic life are subject to the eternal laws of spiritual capital.”

Spiritual Law Economic Subjects Eternal

Author:Ted Malloch

“Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.”

Law Physics Rings Smoke Instant Chemistry Cosmic Laws Of Physics

Book:The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the frontiers of cosmology

Source: The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the frontiers of cosmology

“The enthronement of Christ over the minds of men is steadily going forward. His kingdom embraces the princes in the realm of mind. It embraces the nations of highest civilization. They are all beneath the cross. It is maintained by simple authority. Other mental monarchs rule by logic; Christ's word is law--it is satisfying to His subjects. His truth in the hands of His disciples, like the bread He broke upon the mountains, is an ample supply for the millions that gather at His table.”

“What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a universal mind?”

Mind Law Science Universal Maps Universal Laws

Book:Evidences of Revealed Religion

Source: Evidences of Revealed Religion

“Therefore, to teach them [women] at least an outline of economics and law is the first requirement after giving them a general education. Figuratively speaking, it will be like providing the women of civilized society with a pocket dagger for self-protection.”

Giving Firsts Self Law Teach Economics Protection Pockets Civilized Providing Requirements Outlines Civilized Society Daggers Self Protection General Education

Book:Fukuzawa Yukichi on Japanese women: selected works

Source: Fukuzawa Yukichi on Japanese women: selected works

“All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.”

People Ifs Needs Problem Law Poor Money Moral Crime Easier Poor People

Book:I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

Source: I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

“Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success.”

Men Success Law Impossible He Man Nothing Is Impossible

Author:Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

“Christianity is part of the law of England.”

Law Christianity England

Author:John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon

“One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.”

Should School Law Young Girl Growth Regret Cat Spoil Joyous Kitten Young Ladies Girlhood School Girl Demure

Author:Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

“We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called 'she-parents,' or 'female progenitors,' or any other descriptive title, but not profane the sacred name of mother!”

Should Kind Law Mother Names Parent Perfect Female Sacred Titles Profane

Book:The Rosary: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: The Rosary: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Kids take up all available time - it's the basic law of parenthood. No matter how much time you give them, whether you work from eight to eight or are around the house all the time, you'll still feel you haven't been there enough for them.”

Giving Feels Children Stills Matter Enough Kids Law House Havens Available Eight Parenthood

Author:Myrna Blyth

“The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.”

Men Feels Made Law Community Break Prison Transgression

Book:Before I Kill More ...

Source: Before I Kill More ...

“any fair-minded person will agree that humanity hasn't the faintest inkling, at this time, of the powers and laws that will, sometime, be known and used.”

Persons Law Used Humanity Known Fairs Agree

Author:Margery Wilson

“The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.”

Hands Law Social Class Tools Abstract Social Class

Author:Josephine Herbst

“I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it will be worth perusing, bruising badly the morals of Britain and America, while Royalty, clergy, critics, society and bloodhounds of law must all incur its censure.”

May America Law Moral Hell Months One Day Six Presses Critics Britain Six Months Royalty Clergy Censure Bloodhounds Britain And America

Book:Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader

Source: Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader

“until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.”

Men Law Moral Opinion Equality Spheres Public Opinion In-laws Promiscuous

Author:Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

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