In-laws Quotes - Page 15

• We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.

  Judith Martin

  Jobs, Responsibility, Men

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• To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry, I would rather not go on.

  Yann Martel

  Mother, Brother, Sorry

  Yann Martel (2002). “Life Of Pi”, p.169, Canongate Books

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• What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

  Benjamin Carson

  School, Winning, Thinking

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• By today's standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today's U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence.

  Joseph Sobran

  Kings, Impact, Government

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• We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world.

  Brad Thor

  Country, Warrior, Night

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• As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses. An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life. Morality is never upheld by a legalized murder.

  Coretta Scott King

  Mother, Husband, Law

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• To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son - how can we do it? Only, I think, by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night, “Forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse God’s mercy for ourselves. There is no hint of exceptions and God means what he says.

  C. S. Lewis

  Daughter, Mother, Bullying

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• Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

  Dick Clark

  Funny, Boyfriend, Father

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.

  Anita Hill

  School, Thinking, Who I Am

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• My brother-in-law wrote an unusual murder story. The victim got killed by a man from another book.

  Robert Sylvester

  Brother, Book, Men

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• We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right and the news media cooperated. We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5 percent. We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted [by the media] as though they had been written in law.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Media, Law, Pro Life

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• To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. ... Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Real, Home

  "Strange cats" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 1995.

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• This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

  Angela Bassett

  Law, Careers, America

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2009.

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• In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.

  Harry S. Truman

  Real, Law, Safety

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs. ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Law, Church, Speech

  "Pope Benedict XVI on the Issues", www.foxnews.com. April 25, 2008.

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