William Blackstone Quotes

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.

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• Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Believe
  • Home
  • Name

• I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Children
  • Perfect
  • Responsibility

• The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Truth
  • American
  • Best

• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Nature
  • Today
  • Garden

• There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Music
  • You
  • Risk

• I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Popular

• I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Actually

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• There are charms made only for distant admiration.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Made
  • Admiration
  • Distant

• The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Up
  • Want

• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • People
  • World
  • High

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Joke
  • Call
  • Colleagues

• God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Ideas
  • U.S.

• How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• 'Jack,you have debauched my sloth.'

  

  Patrick O'Brian

• That's when I got my guard down. He was okay with going to my office and meeting people and being seen. That's how he got me.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • People
  • Office
  • Meeting

• The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Now no joy but lacks salt .That is not dashed with pain and weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Weariness

• I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Dream

• Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.

  

  William Blackstone
  • God
  • Humans
  • Foundation