Socio Legal Quotes & Sayings

I, _, certify that by signing below I agree to abide by the rules outlined in the REACH Handbook. I understand the rules, which have been properly explained to me by a REACH staff member. I further acknowledge that if I disregard the rules for any reason I will be subject to disciplinary action which may include in-house detention, additional counseling, and/or expulsion from the REACH program.
What it really means: I, , sign my freedom over to REACH staff. By signing this piece of paper, I certify that my life will be dictated by other people and I'll live a miserable existence while I'm in Colorado. — Simone Elkeles

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. — Charles Caleb Colton

the best predictor of whether we are happy or not is our social relationships. — Meik Wiking

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past. — Alan Lightman

Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we've got to get it that the moral high ground doesn't get us anything. Pleading with powerful men never gets us what we need. Talking doesn't do it. Being right doesn't do it. Hardball politics does it ... and a political strategy. — Naomi Wolf

The word 'comedy' implies slapstick. — Ridley Scott

There are eight million stories in the naked city," he intoned. "You remember that program? Used to be on television some years back."
"I remember."
"They had that line at the end of every show. 'There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.' "
"I remember it."
"Eight million stories," he said. "You know what you got in this city, this fucked-up toilet of a naked fucking city? You know what you got? You got eight million ways to die. — Lawrence Block

People pay for that they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And the pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. - James Baldwin — Dorothy Allison

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel. — Boies Penrose

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most. — Penn Jillette

Nothing could be more misdirected than a self-directed life. — Lewis Sperry Chafer

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning. — Chiaki Kuriyama

You will attract everything you require - money, people, connections.. PAY ATTENTION to what's being set in front of you. — Rhonda Byrne