Popelike Quotes & Sayings

Criminal law has to do with relations between the misbehaving individual and his government ... Criminal law establishes rules of conduct; their breach, if prosecuted and conviction follows, results in punishment. — Lawrence M. Friedman

He felt like a man whose fever
had broken, flush with the euphoria of the first, tenuous return of strength - still
weak, but buoyant with the hope of an eventual return to wholeness. The sickness in
his soul, however, laid a jealous claim on him. — Gaelen Foley

Manon told herself it was for an alliance. Told herself it was for show.
But all she could see was the unconditional love in that dying wyvern's eyes as she unbuckled her harness, stood from the saddle, and leapt off Abraxos. — Sarah J. Maas

This is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of us fall down from the heights of possibility, down into diminished selves and dismal societies. Many now do not even hope for a better society, but they recognize it when they encounter it, and that discovery shines out even through the namelessness of their experience. Others recognize it, grasp it, and make something of it, and long-term social and political transformations, both good and bad, arise from the wreckage. The door to this ear's potential paradises is in hell. — Rebecca Solnit

In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted oligarchy of two corporate-indentured parties - to push hitherto taboo issues onto the public stage, to build for a future, to get a young generation in, keep the progressive agenda alive, push the two parties a little bit on this issue and that. — Ralph Nader

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops. — Camille Paglia

Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime. — Stockwell Day

You always used to comfort us by saying you had everything in life because you had twice the hands to hold. — Louis Stevens

I don't want'a die ... I have other plans! — Jim Henson

Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws. — Seneca The Younger

Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering. — Alexander MacLaren