Legislates Quotes & Sayings

What if eternity is nothing more than me, alone, in the darkness? — Beth Revis

Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of ways to diminish your worth. But what is inside you no one can take from you or tarnish. This is your worth, who you really are, your degree that can go with you wherever you go, that you bring with you the moment you come into a room, that can't be manipulated or shaken. Without that sense of self, no amount of paper, no pedigree, and no credentials can make you legit. No matter what, you have to feel legit inside first. — Chris Gardner

I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady. — Rena Sofer

The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. — Tacitus

It is the unexpected note that makes the poem. You, Hugh, are the unexpected note. (pg 554) — Helen Simonson

The significant difference between Proust and Faulkner, for Sartre, is that where Proust discovers salvation in time, in the recovery of time past, for Faulkner time is never lost, however much he may want, like a mystic, to forget time. Both writers emphasize the transitoriness of emotion, of the condition of love or misery, or whatever passes because it is transitory in time. "Proust really should have employed a technique like Faulkner's," Sartre legislates, "that was the logical outcome of his metaphysic. Faulkner, however, is a lost man, and because he knows that he is lost he risks pushing his thoughts to its conclusion. Proust is a classicist and a Frenchman; and the French lose themselves with caution and always end by finding themselves. — John McCormick

When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes. — David Malpass

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways. — Plato

A fruitless year, take a fearless heart
One that blooms late will flourish in the dark — Criss Jami

Say that Congress legislates gasoline price controls that sets a maximum price of $1 a gallon. As sure as night follows day, there'd be long lines and gasoline shortages, just as there were in the 1970s. For the average consumer, a $1.60 a gallon selling price and no waiting lines is a darn sight cheaper than a controlled $1 a gallon price plus searching for a gasoline station that has gas and then waiting in line. If your average purchase is 10 gallons, and if an hour or so of your time is worth more that $6, the $1.60 a gallon free market price is cheaper. — Walter E. Williams

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs. — Madonna Ciccone

He began to cry soundlessly. The tide had never gone out so far; he could see nothing but drying mudflats and those splintered pilings which cast their eternal damaged shadows. She — Stephen King

It is the ones who keep you in thrall to more than their snatches who command the houses and the gowns to go with them. And for that they have first to love themselves. — Sarah Dunant

Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens. — Octavio Paz

Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long. — Joan D. Chittister

Under the attempt to perform the impossible there sets in a general disintegration. When legislation fails, those who look upon it as a sovereign remedy simply cry out for more legislation.
A sound and wise statesmanship which recognizes and attempts to abide by its limitations will undoubtedly find itself displaced by that type of public official who promises much, talks much, legislates much, expends much, but accomplishes little.
The deliberate, sound judgement of the country is likely to find it has been superseded by a popular whim. — Calvin Coolidge

Mugged by my own mother. — Rick Riordan

Mama said there would be days like this.She never said it would be day after day,after day!~ Unknown — Candace Mumford