Law Quotes - Page 18

• Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one Reason.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Goal, Hatred, Reason

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from May 01, 2016

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• Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have a development of their own in accordance with the inherent laws from which they are separately derived. Both, however, aim toward the realization of the same image. And both deal with the depth problem.

  Hans Hofmann

  Color, Depth, Realization

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Search for the Real in the Visual Arts", p. 45, 1948.

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• The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Powerful, Denial, Affection

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• We do not read (the law) to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution's need to maintain order and safety, ... We have no cause to believe that (the law) would not be applied in an appropriately balanced way, without sensitivity to security concerns.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Religious, Believe, Order

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• Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.

  Philip Sidney

  Determination, Rebel

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.100

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• Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

  Paul Dickson

  Funny, Humor, Civilization

  Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

  Paul Dickson

  Innovation, Levels, Social

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• Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.

  Paul Dickson

  Giving, Advice, Firsts

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• Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

  Paul Dickson

  Funny Life, Airplane, Want

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• Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Color, Drawing, Principles

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• The question not many ask is: why are the laws of physics like they are?

  Paul Davies

  Physics, Laws Of Physics, Asks

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• The law itself follows gold.

  Propertius

  Gold

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• I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Fun, Desire, Nine

  'Gaudy Night' (1935) ch. 14

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• There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, May, Facts

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  School, Thinking, Careers

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• Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.

  E. O. Wilson

  Environmental, Abnormal, Earth

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• To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Laws Of Nature

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• Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening.

  Thomas Ken

  Morning, Lambs, Evening

  Thomas Ken, Esq. William HAWKINS (of the Middle Temple.), James Thomas ROUND (1838). “The Prose Works of ... T. K. ... To which are Added Some of His Letters (never Before Published) and a Short Account of His Life by W. Hawkins ... Collected by J. T. Round”, p.362

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• Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Assault Weapons, Cities, Enforcement

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• The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work.

  Jack Canfield

  Trying, Probability, Experiments

  Jack Canfield, Marci Shimoff, Janet Bray Attwood, Chris Attwood (2012). “Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to Live Your Best Life Now!”, p.7, Hierophant Publishing

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• The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Feelings, Authority, Should

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• For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Long, Association, Causes

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book V, 11, 10,

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• Opulence is the law of the universe, an abundant supply for every need if nothing is put in the way of its coming.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Needs, Opulence, Way

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Trine”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

  Claudius Claudianus

  People, Justice, Submit

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 413-15, De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris, CCXCVII, 1922.

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• If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains himself, and lives according to law,then his glory will increase.

  Max Muller

  Deeds, Glory, Consideration

  F. Max Muller (2000). “Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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