Law Quotes - Page 140

Your body is malleable; you can sculpt it over time with daily habits of diet and exercise. The law of accommodation reminds us that the body may change slowly, but it will change.

Prayer never changes the laws of nature.

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

We have never had the will to enforce the immigration laws. What you see is what you'll continue to get.

Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.

It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency toward an agreement between the ideas which suggest themselves to the human mind and those which are concerned in the laws of nature.

The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.

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

Divine mind is the one and only reality.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.

The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion.

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.