Quotes by Lawyers - Page 33

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. Nixon
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
Robert G. Ingersoll
If you only think of yourself, there's no room for another in marriage.
Barbara Lieberman
Later, as she drove the children to school, she thought how worn the grooves were along which they moved their quarrels. She could feel herself saying all the clichéd phrases of a thousand injured women before her, but she could never stop herself. - ‘The Negotiated Settlement
Petina Gappah
Then I’ll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort.
Erle Stanley Gardner
Our marriage ended because I couldn’t make him see me or hear me or do anything I wanted or needed. I could only be as selfish and mean as he was to get his attention. And that was ruinous.
Susan Rieger
For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.
Jed Rubenfeld
It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you will always see the face you loved and won. And a woman who really loves a man does not see that he grows old; he is not decrepit to her; he does not tremble; he is not old; she always sees the same gallant gentleman who won her hand and heart. I like to think of it in that way; I like to think that love is eternal. And to love in that way and then go down the hill of life together, and as you go down, hear, perhaps, the laughter of grandchildren, while the birds of joy and love sing once more in the leafless branches of the tree of age.
Robert G. Ingersoll
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
Mahatma Gandhi
It’s not going to be easy, but it’s kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done.
Kenneth Eade
Doesn't it always boil down to pain?
Francisco X. Stork
But love and pain are two sides of the same coin. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes that's how we know we're alive.
Alex George
If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.
Steve Berry
People were crazy with pain and secrets.
Anna Funder
most Americans think of Rosa Parks as a demur, pleasant-enough seamstress who backed into history by being too tired to get out of her seat on a bus one day, in reality she had been trained in nonviolence spirit and tactics at a famous institution, Highlander Folk School. It seems to be a difficult concept for most of us that peace is a skill that can be learned. We know war can be learned, but we seem to think that one becomes a peacemaker by a mere change of heart. (23)
Mahatma Gandhi
Live simply so others may simply live
Mahatma Gandhi
We have undoubtedly achieved Pakistan, and that too without bloody war, practically peacefully, by moral and intellectual force, and with the power of the pen, which is no less mighty than that of the sword and so our righteous cause has triumphed. Are we now going to besmear and tarnish this greatest achievement for which there is no parallel in the history of the world? Pakistan is now a fait accompli and it can never be undone, besides, it was the only just, honourable, and practical solution of the most complex constitutional problem of this great subcontinent. Let us now plan to build and reconstruct and regenerate our great nation...
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.
Virchand Gandhi
Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.
Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Mahatma Gandhi
How great are the advantages of solitude! -- How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies? There is something in the very name of wilderness, which charms the ear, and soothes the spirit of man. There is religion in it.
Estwick Evans
Of course, accidents will happen in wild-folk families just as among us humans, only in a wild-folk family, an accident is more apt to be fatal.
Samuel Scoville Jr.
Every step of the walk unburdens us of what we have just seen and thought while it simultaneously thrusts us into the previously unknown.
Jeffrey Robinson
Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same time.
Kenneth Eade
This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.
Robert G. Ingersoll
I know noble accentsAnd lucid, inescapable rhythms;But I know, too,That the blackbird is involvedIn what I know.
Wallace Stevens
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll
There’s a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are “making a living”. No, they’re not. They’re dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful.
Adrian Tan
The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its children. That is why the paradigmatic poor family in the United States is a single mother and her child.
Joan C. Williams
If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.
Abraham Lincoln
If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions.
Mahatma Gandhi
We are bodies of broken bones. I guess I’d always known but never fully considered that being broken is what makes us human. We all have our reasons. Sometimes we’re fractured by the choices we make; sometimes we’re shattered by things we would never have chosen. But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion.We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our humanity.
Bryan Stevenson
If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenseless are protected and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone.
Robert G. Ingersoll
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.
Charles W. Chesnutt
We shall need all the anti-slavery feeling in the country, and more; you can go home and try to bring the people to your views, and you may say anything you like about me, if that will help... When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.
Abraham Lincoln
The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?
Mahatma Gandhi
The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
Mahatma Gandhi
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
Mahatma Gandhi
A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom.
Antonin Scalia
This, then, is the legacy of January 1973. The "me generation" found its voice, religion became a political force, poverty and civil rights became someone else's problem, and the national will for concerted action for the common good of all its citizens was scattered into "a thousand points of light."At some point, perhaps those scattered lights will re-form and reunite to give birth to a rededicated nation, one that includes a place for everyone, opportunity for all, and help for those who need it. After all, it only takes a moment in time and some simultaneity. As Lyndon Johnson so aptly observed in his greatest speech - the "We Shall Overcome" speech - there are times in America when "history and fate meet at a single time in a single space to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom."Let us hop such a time is nearing.
James Robenalt
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"Cicero, Orator, 46 BCBy way of 'Dictator' by Robert Harris, 2015
Cicero
All history is modern history.
Wallace Stevens
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
Richard Nixon
It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.
Steve Berry
Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world
Virchand Gandhi
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow
Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.
John Grisham
If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.
Mahatma Gandhi
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
Abraham Lincoln
Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.
Mahatma Gandhi
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow
Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.
John Grisham
If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.
Mahatma Gandhi
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
Abraham Lincoln
Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.
Mahatma Gandhi
An enemy of today is a friend of tomorrow
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
In the intelligence community, a rumor was almost as good as a confirmation.
Kenneth Eade