Honorary Legal Degree Quotes & Sayings

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence. — Michael Polanyi

America's families will be safer in a world where we're strong, where we're engaged, but where we're respected. — John Edwards

What a sour little doodad the telephone is, and what little good news we get from it! — Stephen King

Under the sustaining influence of love, the physical body is always at its best. It is probably true that more people are sick from lack of love in their lives than from all other causes put together. — Eric Butterworth

I can to see the streets and the schools as arms of the same beast. One enjoyed the official power of the state while the other enjoyed its implicit sanction. But fear and violence were the weaponry of both. Fail in the streets and the crews would catch you slipping and take your body. Fail in the schools and you would be suspended and sent back to those same streets, where they would take your body. And I began to see these two arms in relation - those who failed in the schools justified their destruction in the streets. The society could say, "He should have stayed in school," and then wash its hands of him — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Finish that sentence, Raith, and we throw down, said Murphy in a calm, level voice. — Jim Butcher

I couldn't speak enough Spanish. I couldn't make myself understood on that club. — Lefty Gomez

The nature of love lies in its intimacy, in the seclusion of its joyful impulses, in its dark separateness, in the daring division of the world into lovers and the rest. This most ordinary human feeling hides its secrets and gives everyone the right to unfold himself from the beginning, as if he were created precisely for this. — Valerian Pidmohylny

Firefly, it is an act of bravery to feel your feelings. Oh, Meg would've loved that. It's an act of bravery to feel your feelings, even if your feelings are telling you to die. — Gayle Forman

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of. — Ivan Klima