Joseph Story Quotes

Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . . . . It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic.

Joseph Story

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• Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Plan

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

  

  Mae West
  • Long
  • Laws
  • Now And Then

• My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Kids
  • Practice
  • Teach

• He who is contented is rich.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Rich
  • He
  • Contented

• I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • World
  • Die
  • Start

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• For me, life is about experiencing many new things and working with good people, working on good projects, and in general, just having any kind of job.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • Money
  • Just
  • Admit

• I run all the brands like cousins. You want your cousins to do well, but you want to do better. All of our brands want to win, but we certainly want to fight fair and coordinate as much as we can behind the scenes. But to the consumer, we want to offer the broadest, most competitive set of products that we can.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Better
  • Win
  • Fight

• You always back off at the exact moment when you're about to tell the other person exactly what she needs to hear.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She

• It's pleasing to realize that quite a few people enjoy this sort of playfulness and that they are not afraid to look at the relative nature of rock-hard reality.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • People
  • Nature
  • Reality

• Chremylus: Wealth, the most excellent of all the gods. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes

• It is not our policy to suppress success.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Success

• But do you know what struck me, apart from Nancy’s vibrant self-pity, which she had the nerve to pretend was grief?

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • She
  • Grief

• In mythology, the Medusa can petrify people with a look - which is a good thing, I think. But the Medusa is a unique symbol - something strong. It's about going all the way.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • People
  • Good
  • Strong

• My mother was a gorgeous person with no vanity, but she was a really good soul.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Mother
  • Soul
  • Vanity

• People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer.

  

  David Bowie
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Decision

• The No. 1 challenge is getting people to understand that Pinterest isn't a social network.

  

  Ben Silbermann
  • People
  • Challenge

• Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my running. Running every day is a kind of lifeline for me, so I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Running
  • Busy
  • Reasons

• We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Together
  • Sleep
  • Marriage

• Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . . . . It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic.

  

  Joseph Story
  • Law
  • Marriage
  • Contract