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Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

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• Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Students
  • Laws
  • Impact

• Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Eye
  • Friendship
  • Texas

• I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Me
  • Try
  • Escape

• We want laws to be applied predictably.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Want
  • Laws
  • Applied

• To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Game
  • Company
  • Escape

• I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Broken
  • Laws
  • United States

• 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
  • Child
  • Laws
  • Guns

• I write to escape; to escape poverty.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Poverty
  • Write
  • Escape

• The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Stage
  • Laws
  • Both

• Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Books
  • Laws
  • Behavior

• When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Escape

• In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • House
  • Laws
  • Obey

• A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • May
  • Bad
  • Laws

• Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.

  

  Warren De la Rue
  • Nature
  • Period
  • Laws

• I think he genuinely meant it. I think he really wants to do the right things to escape this demon that's got him.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Escape
  • Demon

• Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive for more and more pleasure or try to contain it. If we suffer pain we want to escape it. We experience dissatisfaction all the time. All activities contain dissatisfaction or pain, continuously.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Government
  • Laws

• Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Money
  • Laws
  • Traps

• It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Possible
  • Laws
  • Physics

• That's how I digest it, 'cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I'm gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Choices
  • Actors
  • Week

• It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Law
  • Slavery
  • Absence

• I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Flesh
  • Time to Time
  • Family Face

• When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

  

  Nicholas Brendon
  • Frightened
  • Auditioning
  • Stutter

• Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

  

  Solon
  • Laws
  • Escape
  • Spiders