Justinian Code Quotes

#1. I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.

Madonna Ciccone

#2. When your heart breaks and you lose absolutely everything you have left in life. The only thing you can do is cry.

Jay McLean

#3. There's not a damn thing that I do on my own that's not for my fans or for people that have supported me. So I don't really care about my agenda, I wanna be on yours.

Darren Criss

#4. There is likely to be a lag between the need for action and government ["an individual's" or "a team's"] recognition of the need; a further lag between recognition of the need for action and the taking of action; and a still further lag between the action and its effects

Milton Friedman

#5. She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

Annie Dillard

#6. Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever
Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.

Madison Cawein

#7. The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

Charlotte Bronte

#8. After eyeing her for a moment or two, he said: 'If you let this chance of achieving a respectable alliance slip, you are a bigger fool than I take you for, Hester!' Her eyes came round to his face, a smile quivered for an instant on her lips. 'No, how could that be, Papa?

Georgette Heyer

#9. According to the psychologist irving Janis, is that our sense of belonging (which makes us feel safe) blinds us to dangers and encourages greater risk-taking.

Margaret Heffernan

#10. Mankind has invented the mirror in vain, for there's nobody in this world who looks into the mirror and sees himself as he truly is; each person has his own mirror hidden in his own mind and he can't see more than what that mirror in his mind reflects!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.

Edith Sitwell

#12. Desire for increased wealth is not evil ... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.

Wallace D. Wattles

#13. A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#14. I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.

Al Gore