Expressly Prohibited Quotes

#1. Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be exercised as a means of carrying into effect some specified Power?

James Madison

#2. Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. Our first responders risk their lives to help others. The least we can do is make sure they have the resources they need to do their jobs.

Ben Nelson

#4. There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act.

Edward Ball

#5. People only disappear when they have somewhere to go

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#6. Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Elfriede Jelinek

#7. When you look at the gladiator times or at any of the things in human history, people are and have always been attracted to violence to the point where they're in stadiums still to this day watching people getting stoned to death.

Rosario Dawson

#8. Science began as one of the noblest expressions of man's reason. It will continue to serve humanity so long as it never forgets that human beings remain the heart of its purpose.

Robert Kennedy

#9. I wish no one knew anything about me.

Unknown

#10. I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

Mark Twain

#11. A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

Joe Perry

#12. In many ways, our homes act as one big drain that, through our daily relationship with water, carries many toxic substances into our waterways and the environment.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#13. you're...fucking...dating?

Kristen Ashley

#14. Change is the end of something you know and the beginning of something else that you don't know. Something new that holds opportunities.

Kholoud Yasser

#15. I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from.

Flannery O'Connor

#16. Every end is a beginning. Every stop a fresh start. All in order, as its nature, like the beating of my heart.

F.T. Moore

#17. You can't grow a beard if you shave

Bob Blue