There ought to be a law against necessity.
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There ought to be a law against people doing work they don't like or believe in.
MARTY RUBIN I always seem to be running into cyclists, every time I cross the road. There ought to be a law agai...
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~ ALBERT EINSTEIN
' I F E V E R Y T H I N...
SERGE BENHAYON When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.
E. Y. HARBURG Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
E. Y. HARBURG When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
E. Y. HARBURG The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
E. Y. HARBURG Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
E. Y. HARBURG Leave the atom alone.
E. Y. HARBURG Follow the yellow brick road.
E. Y. HARBURG Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
E. Y. HARBURG April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
E. Y. HARBURG You're paid to stop a bullet.
It's a soldier's job, they say.
And so you stop your bullet, E. Y. HARBURG No matter how much I probe and prod
I cannot quite believe in God,
But, oh, I hope to God th...
E. Y. HARBURG O innocent victims of Cupid,
Remember this terse little verse:
To let a fool kiss you is stu...
E. Y. HARBURG 'For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice ...
E. Y. HARBURG O innocent victims of Cupid,Remember this terse little verse:To let a fool kiss you is stupid,To let...
E. Y. HARBURG You're paid to stop a bullet.It's a soldier's job, they say.And so you stop your bullet,And then the...
E. Y. HARBURG No matter how much I probe and prodI cannot quite believe in God,But, oh, I hope to God that HeUnswe...
E. Y. HARBURG Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
E. Y. HARBURG You've got to S-M-I-L-E
To be H-A-Double-P-Y
SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK A lot of e-mail ought to be part of a knowledge management system, ... People used to be up to their...
CHARLES STEVENS There are two things that are without law, God and necessity.
VIKRANT PARSAI Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushin...
RUSH LIMBAUGH Necessity has no law.
OLIVER CROMWELL Necessity has no law.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Necessity has no law.
WILLIAM LANGLAND Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Necessity gives the law, but does not itself submit to it
PUBLILIUS SYRUS There should be a law against doing work one doesn't like or believe in.
MARTY RUBIN There already is a present law against torture,
DUNCAN HUNTER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Yo soy yo y tú eres tú, todos los de allá fuera son ellos. Y todos somos diferentes e igualmente ...
JENNY DOWNHAM Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER There is either where we've been or where we hope to go, here is where we are, take a moment to give...
DENNIS BARTON Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Anyone who goes up against Kenneth Starr ought to be worried,
SUSAN MCDOUGAL It's not like there's a law against flying."
"Yes there is. The law of gravity.
LAINI TAYLOR The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right sho...
MARIA EDGEWORTH If they are breaking the law already, a new measurement will not prohibit them from sending those e-...
LOUIS MASTRIA Cierro los ojos y me convierto en un barco intrépido, osado e invencible en medio de un mar agitado...
NICHOLAS SPARKS It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
[It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI") The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.
MOLESCHOLTE The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.
MOLESCHOLTE There's no discrimination against U.S. citizens in this, and that's what the law requires, that ther...
JOSH BERNSTEIN I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and w...
DAVID LANGE The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d ...
TAHEREH MAFI Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roug...
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
[Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto....
DANTE ALIGHIERI It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.
CASSANDRA CLARE There is no law against delaying action to weigh it in thought.
UNARINE RAMARU Wherever there is a parliament, there must of necessity be an opposition.
JOHN WAGSTAFF Not even the gods fight against necessity.
SIMONIDES Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If a fine is levied and the appeal process is run, (MSHA) ought to collect it. You ought to comply w...
BILL CAYLOR Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil...
THOMAS CARLYLE You cannot spell prosperity, without i-s and p-r-o-p-e-r-t-y
BRADLEY J. HARRISON There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wond...
MARIA CALLAS Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Retiring should be against the law. It's a waste of time.
DAVE FAVRE Is it just me, or do you also think this is unnatural behavior in a female parent? Isn't there a fed...
ANN EDWARDS CANNON I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.
EDDIE HUANG The fixed terms are there for a purpose, and that is to protect the independence of the appointee, ....
ANDREW BRIMMER I don't believe we ought to be discriminating against people for their private lives.
SCOTT TIPTON So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.
BILL JANKLOW He of all people ... ought to be aware of how common it is for those who pose as children to be law ...
LA RUE Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Burning human body is against Islam, against the law of the land, a breach to international norm s a...
ZAHIR AZIMI There ought to be a room in every house to swear in.
MARK TWAIN There ought to be a room in every house to swear in
MARK TWAIN Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's nothing cool about turning against God. There's nothing fun or cute or right about compromis...
CRAIG GROESCHEL I feel it ought to be on the ballot whether you are for it or against it.
JOHN WELLS A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be s...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Lo que pasó es lo de menos. Es una novela, y lo que ocurre en ellas da lo mismo y se olvida, una ve...
JAVIER MARíAS One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you nee...
SAM ALTMAN There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to ...
EDMUND BURKE Es fácil que te guste alguien desde la distancia. Pero cuando deja de ser algo increíble e inalcan...
JOHN GREEN Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
KARL A. MENNINGER People ought to fight
to keep their law
as to defend the citys walls.
HERACLITUS There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a
well-formed mind would be disposed to r...
EDMUND BURKE How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I I I I I I t t t t t t i i i i i i s s s s s s u u u u u u n n n n n n f f f f f f o o o o o o r r ...
TODD COBURN To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
JANET ERSKINE STUART There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
JANET ERSKINE STUART I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
DIOGENES Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limitat...
HANNAH ARENDT There is very little law regarding e-mail right now. The law that exists is state-based, which means...
MICHAEL OVERLY Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nat...
BILL HICKS The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
ALEX LEVIN The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
ALEX LEVIN That's taking part in a war that was against international law. I don't want Germany to be a war cou...
PETRA PAU The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear with...
EDGAR QUINET Polygamy is against the law in Canada and, perhaps more importantly, there are laws against the sexu...
FRANK QUENNELL I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people. I don't need to look past seeing...
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
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When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.
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E. Y. HARBURG When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
E. Y. HARBURG The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
E. Y. HARBURG Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
E. Y. HARBURG Leave the atom alone.
E. Y. HARBURG Follow the yellow brick road.
E. Y. HARBURG Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
E. Y. HARBURG April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
E. Y. HARBURG You're paid to stop a bullet.
It's a soldier's job, they say.
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But, oh, I hope to God th...
E. Y. HARBURG O innocent victims of Cupid,
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E. E. CUMMINGS Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
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E. E. CUMMINGS Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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E. E. CUMMINGS Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When
the judgement day comes, God w...
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E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS He without fear is king of the world.
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E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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E E CUMMINGS (i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
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maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
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Thats not an answer.
There is...
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JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to l...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Sólo hay una Razón para negar la Obviedad : Resistirse a admitirla ".
FERNANDO GONZáLEZ Y LOZANO Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coercive...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvati...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET La belleza que atrae rara vez coincide con la belleza que enamora.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of ma...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Le premier signe de l'ignorance, c'est de présumer que l'on sait.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Y MORALES Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generati...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradi...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Li...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET On the Bigotry of Culture:
: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET He who does not really feel himself lost, is lost without remission; that is to say, he never finds ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET Desde el siglo XVI ha entrado la humanidad toda en un proceso gigantesco de unificación, que en nue...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be us...
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