Top 100 J Law Quotes
#1. There are so many YA novels being made because there is so much young talent that can bring it to life. J-Law was one of the first females to do it with 'The Hunger Games,' and it's been going on for a while now. With J-Law, it was like, 'Hey, I'm Katniss,' and then, 'Hey, I just won an Oscar!'
Dexter Darden
#2. We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#3. The goal is the developed Kingdom of God, the New Jerusalem, a world order under God's law.
R.J. Rushdoony
#4. A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his subjects to these virtues, virtuous only if free, but by unnaturally making justice unlawful, will drive them rather to rebellion against all law.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#5. We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by the law and by their fellow citizens.
William J. Brennan
#6. Animals never have recourse to law courts, because they have no will to love; but man, having reason, feels the need of justifying his irrational behavior when he does wrong.
Fulton J. Sheen
#7. But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.
Daniel J. Evans
#8. You have to be naked with somebody for more than two hours for them to qualify as an ex. It's a law.
J.D. Robb
#9. A child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men.
J. Edgar Hoover
#10. We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.
William J. Clinton
#11. Hermione recited at top speed: "Golpalott's-Third-Law-states-that-the-antidote-for-a-blended-poison-will-be-equal-to-more-than-the-sum-of-the-antidotes-for-each-of-the-separate-components.
J.K. Rowling
#12. Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.
P. J. O'Rourke
#13. Remember, the Law of Attraction does not care whether you are remembering, pretending, celebrating, playing, creating, complaining or worrying. It simply responds to what's in your Vibrational Bubble. So, find proof, rejoice and send out a positive vibration.
Michael J. Losier
#14. Unless the relationship of law to Christianity is re-established, there is no future except destruction for Western culture.
R. J. Rushdooney
#15. The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.
Ernst Junger
#16. An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.
Evelle J. Younger
#17. Rhiannon's Law #63: Fake it until you make it. You might not know what the fuck you're doing, but that doesn't mean everyone else is aware of your inaptitude. When in doubt, hold your head high and pretend you have a clue.
J.A. Saare
#18. Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's greatest law enforcement agency would not necessarily keep him in office.
Ronald Kessler
#19. People like Brian and me don't lose contact with our parents because we don't care; we lose contact with them to survive. We never stop loving, and we never lose hope that our loved ones will change. Rather, we are forced, either by wisdom or by the law, to take the path of self-preservation.
J.D. Vance
#20. No nation went into oblivion or was destroyed because it had bad laws, or because its statesmen were not intelligent, but because of INTERNAL CORRUPTION, and because they could not maintain the POWER OF SELF-CONTROL.
Melvin J. Ballard
#21. Harming one's unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.
J.S.B. Morse
#22. I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.
George J. Mitchell
#23. Rhiannon's Law #37: Don't get so high and mighty, God will only reward that arrogance with a huge bitch slap back to reality.
J.A. Saare
#24. Once I decide to do something, I want to win in the worst way. I will do anything within the law to win.
Theodore J. Forstmann
#25. It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently as his muscles.
Walter J. Phillips
#26. all democratic societies based on the rule of law, on the Tinkerbell Principle: it functioned only so long as its participants believed in it.48
William J. Bernstein
#27. Rhiannon's Law #68: If you're going to fly by the seat of your pants, rock out with your cock out. The landing is going to hurt either way, and you might as well make an impression when you nail it.
J.A. Saare
#28. Who needs immortal strength when you've got weapons of mass destruction?
J.A. Saare
#29. The Law of the Twelve Tables, a Roman legislation circa 450 BC, actually required a father to put to death any deformed child (Cito necatus insignis ad deformitatem puer esto). (Modern moral philosophers, like Joseph Fletcher and Princeton University's Peter Singer, advocate the same thing.)
Robert J. Hutchinson
#30. The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.
William J. Brennan
#31. Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
J.G. Holland
#32. The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
J.M. Coetzee
#33. Have you been in a canoe?" "Anywhere where two people can fit, they can have sex. It's the law.
J. Ryan Stradal
#34. It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.
J. Reuben Clark
#35. From h his fullness we have all received, i grace upon grace. [4] 17For j the law was given through Moses; k grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18. l No one has ever seen God; m the only God, [5] who is at the Father's side, [6] n he has made him known.
Anonymous
#36. Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?" asked Scrimgeour.
"No, I'm not," retorted Hermione. "I'm hoping to do some good in the world!
J.K. Rowling
#37. The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.
J. Gresham Machen
#38. There is no more important issue than restoring the protection of the law to pre-natal infants.
Gordon J. Humphrey
#39. C. S. Lewis once wrote that man has two clues to the meaning of the universe. One is the knowledge of a law that he did not make but is obligated to keep; the other is the knowledge that he does not and cannot keep it.
J. Budziszewski
#40. The more laws that are created, the closer we get to lawlessness.
J.S.B. Morse
#41. In ancient societies, the law functioned as a two-edged sword; while standardizing procedure and bringing it out into the open, the law also concentrated power in those few who could read and write.
William J. Bernstein
#43. God in nature is God above us, God in law is God against us, but God in Christ is God with us and for us. -James Bennett
E.J. Evans
#44. How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#45. Law gave me some structure ... all these rules and internal disciplines.
M. J. Hyland
#46. Crow's Law.
Do not believe what you want to believe, until you know what you need to know. R.V. Jones of Scientific Intelligence WWII.
Neville J. Anderson-Budd
#47. And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.
George J. Mitchell
#48. The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation ... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people.
J. Edgar Hoover
#49. You're arrogant, domineering, egotistical, and disdainful of the law."
He lifted one amused brow. "And your point would be?
J.D. Robb
#50. I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did.
George J. Mitchell
#51. We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.
J.I. Packer
#52. Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction
a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.
Louise J. Kaplan
#53. Rhiannon's Law #16: If it looks like a rabbit, and it hops like a rabbit, run the other way and fast. That shit is liable to tear you arm off.
J.A. Saare
#54. Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.
Sydney J. Harris
#56. To students, he was El Diablo, but in Law circles, he was called The Cleaner.
J.J. McAvoy
#57. I'm very proud that the first bill I had the opportunity to sign into law as President was the Family and Medical Leave Act No parent should ever have to choose between work and family; between earning a decent wage and caring for a child.
William J. Clinton
#58. A new and more powerful proclamation of the law is perhaps the most pressing need of the hour ... A low view of law always brings legalism into religion; a high view of law makes man a seeker after grace. Pray that the high view may prevail.
J. Gresham Machen
#59. I crossed the line." "The line shifts." Now he gave those shoulders a quick, impatient shake. "If the law, if justice has no compassion, no fluidity, no humanity, how is it justice?
J.D. Robb
#60. I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness.
George J. Mitchell
#61. I am fat and flabby and that Dr. J. I. Packer is right when he says, "Here then is the root cause of our moral flabbiness; we have neglected God's Law."3
Alistair Begg
#62. Any attorney with a conscience always speaks the truth. An attorney can and should practice law in a scrupulous manner, but some dishonest attorneys disregard ethical mandates in order to win. Unethical attorneys shape their clients stories, which is a fancy way of assisting them tell a fib.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#63. I'm so good at my job the law thinks I'm three different hit men and a serial killer. I speak Russian and French, I never had a pet, and the reason why you hate my coffee is that it's decaf.
J. Fally
#64. Clothed in the majesty of the law one may get away with murder, but lacking the law's prestige one defends himself at the risk of life and liberty.
J. Sidna Allen
#65. No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty
a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the full exercise of his powers and the supply of all his legitimate wants.
J.G. Holland
#66. Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on the block with the biggest stick-it is only might that allows one group to force another to live by its code of conduct ...
William J. Murray
#67. Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
J. William Fulbright
#68. When the baby sees Ismay, she bawls. "She must miss her mother," Ismay says. "Maybe I remind her of her mother?" A.J. nods, though he thinks the real cause is that his sister-in-law frightens the baby.
Gabrielle Zevin
#69. It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.
P. J. O'Rourke
#70. The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
P. J. O'Rourke
#71. Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice ... and justice is the spirit of God.
J.C. Marino
#72. There seems to be no way to save wildness from human intrusion without establishing and enforcing rules and regulations that are themselves intrusions on what, by definition, are meant to be areas outside humanity's control.
J. Meredith Neil
#73. It seems that's there a ghastly Darwinian principle of economics known as the Law of Substitution which declares, more or less, that "the cheapest will survive". This has all sorts of unpleasant consequences, one of which is that non-economic values tend to be eliminated.
J.G. Farrell
#75. None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
J. B. Pritzker
#76. I will sell Chiropractic, serve Chiropractic, and save Chiropractic if it will take me twenty lifetimes to do it. I will promote it within the law, without the law, in keeping with the law or against the law in order to get sick people well and keep the well from getting sick.
B. J. Palmer
#77. Everything is in the process of becoming something else. It's the law of change.
C.J. Roberts
#78. Every social ethic is doomed to failure if it is blind to personal responsibility (The Ten Commandments, 10).
J. Douma
#79. Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.
Richard J. Foster
#80. What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature ... but life itself strikes him as commonplace, when in truth a blade of grass or a neuron in the brain is a greater miracle ...
Sydney J. Harris
#81. The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.
William J. Brennan
#82. The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
P. J. O'Rourke
#83. Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.
R.J. Rushdoony
#84. He felt a giant among pygmies, a pike among crappies, as he stood there among the legislators, most of whom owed him for flavors - special bills passed for their law clients, state jobs for constituents, " contributions" for their personal campaign funds, and so on.
A.J. Liebling
#85. The difficulty is that without a direct revelation from the Author of the law, it is impossible to know whether the possibility of forgiveness is real. Therefore
J. Budziszewski
#86. The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he does not transgress the laws of probability.
Walter J. Phillips
#87. It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
J.G. Holland
#88. ...intricate stone carvings and wood trim gave the law school an almost medieval feel. You'd even sometimes hear that we went to HLS (Hogwarts Law School).
J.D. Vance
#89. As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
J. William Fulbright
#90. If you would learn the secret of right relations, look only for the divine in people and things, and leave all the rest to God.
J. Boone
#91. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs," sighed George, patting the heading of the map. "We owe them so much." "Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of law-breakers," said Fred solemnly.
J.K. Rowling
#92. Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.
Bill James
#93. When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
J. William Fulbright
#94. There is a difference between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law.
R.J. Torbert
#95. When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.
P. J. O'Rourke
#96. Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover
#97. Our prayers at this time are prompted by the fact that the Governor of Illinois today is signing into Illinois law the redefinition of civil marriage, introducing not only an unprecedented novelty into our state law, but also institutionalizing an objectively sinful reality.
Thomas J. Paprocki
#98. Rhiannon's Law #28: If you're going to fuck up, be sure to fuck up good and proper. Nothing makes failure acceptable, so you might as well make your misery count.
J.A. Saare
#99. The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion.
R.J. Rushdoony
#100. God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.
R.J. Rushdoony
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