Errol White Quotes

I have often thought how little I should like to have to prove organic evolution in a court of law.

Errol White

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• Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Happy
  • Law
  • Influence

• I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Up
  • Law
  • Years

• The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Law

• Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Law
  • Sorry
  • Consequences

• I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Law

• There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Law
  • Very

• While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • People
  • Law
  • Rules

• One with the law is a majority.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Law
  • Majority
  • Legal

• I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Different
  • Family
  • Father

• Law enforcement has seen an unprecedented use of social media by ISIL. They're just kind of flooding the airwaves.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Law
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Women
  • Power
  • Nature

• Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Law
  • Justice

• Justice is merely incidental to law and order.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Order

• I want to elevate you to take positions in law offices, in stores, on farms, and wherever you are capable of going.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Law

• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Wonder

• In Romanticism, unlike the Renaissance, Amazons retain their power. Rousseau wants it both ways. Idolizing women is natural and right, a cosmic law. On the other hand, male recessiveness is blamed on female coercion. Either way, sadomasochistic dominance and submission are inherent in Rousseausism from the start.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Power
  • Law

• We agree in principle. That's clear. But take The opposing law and make a peristyle, And from the peristyle project a masque Beyond the planets. Thus, our bawdiness, Unpurged by epitaph, indulged at last, Is equally converted into palms, Squiggling like saxophones. And palm for palm, Madame, we are where we began.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Law

• I have had a son killed, a son-in-law die during the last battle of Nashville, another son has thrown himself away, a second son-in-law is in no better condition, I think I have had sorrow enough without having my bank account examined by a Committee of Congress.

  

  Andrew Johnson
  • Law
  • Die
  • Son

• North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.

  

  Mel Watt
  • Law

• Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Ambition
  • More
  • Down

• I'm from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer.

  

  Jessica Szohr
  • Yoga
  • Soccer
  • Hiking

• I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • Life
  • Real
  • Dark

• I think it's a very ephemeral thing, what makes a show a success.

  

  Douglas Carter Beane
  • Success

• I have often thought how little I should like to have to prove organic evolution in a court of law.

  

  Errol White
  • Law
  • Prove
  • Evolution