Bernard Moitessier Quotes
I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.Bernard Moitessier
Quotes to Explore
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
Adam Cohen -
I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
Sammy Sosa -
The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.
Carl Levin -
I don't order laws, I propose them.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
Barbara Jordan
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
Orson Scott Card -
My dream is to see India as a nation of well-looked-after and respected sportspeople in all fields.
Saina Nehwal -
We must be an inclusive nation that respects and supports all of its citizens: a nation that doesn't give up on anyone who hasn't given up on themselves.
Tammy Duckworth -
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Dan Castellaneta -
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.
Malcolm Wallop
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Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
Warren De la Rue -
Dimensionless constants in the laws of nature, which from the purely logical point of view can just as well have different values, should not exist.
Albert Einstein -
To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.
Finley Peter Dunne -
Usury once in control will wreck the nation.
Mackenzie King -
It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.
Alfred Kinsey -
Ascribing racial animus to people who are trying to safeguard democratic integrity is a crude yet effective political tactic that obscures the truth. But there's something even worse than name-calling: legal interference from Washington with valid laws.
Edwin Meese
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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
Sammy Sosa -
I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I've choreographed all of my movies.
Jackie Chan -
No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Criticism is, or ought to be, a judicious act.
Amitava Kumar -
I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.
Bernard Moitessier