
Top 100 Know The Law Quotes
#1. Forbidden? Listen, I was a lawyer, and I know the law. I was also a Catholic, and I used to know whole sections of the Bible by heart. What do you mean by 'forbidden'?
Paulo Coelho
#2. You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
Philip Yancey
#3. Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law and at the same time insists he's innocent.
Franz Kafka
#4. You know the law, Dresden."
"He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table.
Jim Butcher
#5. know the law of human nature: acts produce habits, habits breed dispositions, dispositions form the will, and the rightly-formed will is character.
Andrew Murray
#6. (45) We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or other officials, only men that know the law of the realm and are minded to keep it well.
Patrick Henry
#7. good lawyers know the law and that great lawyers know the judge?
Ashwin Sanghi
#8. Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
John Selden
#9. God as you probably now know, uses us to do His work. The last time He sent his son, we killed him! We will now have to do the heavy lifting ourselves. We know the Law and we know it's true.
Kazeem Olalekan
#10. Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
Horace
#11. Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right.
William Henry Maule
#12. I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.
Keanu Reeves
#13. I know the law ... I am it's greatest transgressor.
Roy Bean
#14. You know the law of averages says:
Anything will happen that can
Steve Goodman
#15. Reality is always lawful," said Harry, "even if we don't know the law.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#16. In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.
Alafair Burke
#17. Children don't know the law. Their parents slap them to teach them the law and protect them from pleasure. There's
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#18. You see, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law, and at the same time claims he's innocent.
Franz Kafka
#19. Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze?
Tori Amos
#20. The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.
Erle Stanley Gardner
#21. He won't leave," Val said, exasperated. "Then, I'll make him leave," Marks growled. I rolled my eyes. "C'mon, Marks. You know the law. He is her husband. If the cops came, you would be the one asked to leave.
Jamie McGuire
#22. You're coming up to the main house and that's final. I'm laying down the law. I know somewhere in there you're arguing with me, but I'm not taking no for an answer. You have no choice but to obey me. How do you like that, wife?
Mia Sheridan
#23. I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.
Ernest Hemingway,
#24. We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.
Robert Kennedy
#25. If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.
Brigham Young
#26. In the moment you ask, and believe and know you already have it in the unseen, the entire Universe shifts to bring it into the seen.
Rhonda Byrne
#27. God wills us to have everything. As we express life, we fulfill God's law of abundance, but we do this only as we realize that there is good enough to go around-only as we know that all of God's gifts are given as freely and fully as the air and the sunshine.
Ernest Holmes
#28. Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected.
Richard P. Feynman
#29. You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.
David Mamet
#30. We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's.
William Law
#31. Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.
George Orwell
#32. There's a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics ... Man has reached the point where his impact on the climate can be as significant as nature's.
D. James Baker
#33. Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.
Michael Moriarty
#34. Christians are guilty of the notion that there was a time when people were required to live by the mosaic law, I just don't know that ever was the case.
John Middendorf
#35. Look, Lawrence, I know you never cared for me-"
Law cut him off.
"Cared for you? Cared for you? What am I? The gardener?"
"Okay, you always hated me-"
"Better," Law said. "You're wrong of course, but you said what you meant this time.
Jez Morrow
#36. Given that I don't know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a scary one?
Sharon Weil
#37. If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.
Janis Karpinski
#38. I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.
Bruce Willis
#39. We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.
David Neeleman
#40. Supreme Court nominees should know without any doubt that their job is not to impose their own personal opinions of what is right and wrong, but to say what the law is, rather than what they personally think the law ought to be.
Chuck Grassley
#41. I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.
Abraham Lincoln
#42. Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular at the time.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#43. Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.
Otto Von Bismarck
#44. When you feel the need to have the right person show up in your life, affirm: 'I know the right person is arriving in divine order at precisely the perfect time.'
Wayne Dyer
#45. Two buttons had come adrift on her shirt, meaning she was showing more cleavage than was normal for an officer of the law. I don't know if she had children, or planned to, but they would never starve.
Stephen Arnott
#46. We know that a large majority of the Australian society is extremely comfortable with a multicultural society, that we accept that living in a democracy means having a freedom to practise your religion within the limits of the law.
Tim Soutphommasane
#47. You know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases.
Chuck D
#48. The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#49. Our goal is not to douse the recession with money, which would be useless, as both you and I know. Our goal is to liberate the business initiative, to lower administrative and law enforcement pressure and to make legal protection truly effective
Dmitry Medvedev
#50. You know you've built a product that can hit the mainstream when your wife, your father, and your mother-in-law can get involved.
Josh Kopelman
#51. The American people have the right to know and understand the laws they live under. And they tend to demand answers sooner or later.
John Podesta
#52. And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail.
Eric Clapton
#53. We do not know the laws of God, nor their working.
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's." To which Tyndale passionately responded: "I defy the Pope, and all his laws; and if God spares my life, ere many years, I will cause the boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost!
William Tyndale
#55. They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
Calvin Coolidge
#56. Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation.
Alafair Burke
#57. People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.
James Inhofe
#58. We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.
Michael Bloomberg
#59. The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
Charles Lamb
#60. As the brother of a retired law enforcement officer, I know firsthand that our men and women in uniform perform their duties in the face of tremendous threats and significant personal risk. They put their lives on the line every day, and they often have to make split-second decisions.
Eric Holder
#61. To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.
Stephen Vizinczey
#62. The law regarding Half-Breeds has been in
place for many centuries, Galen. It is deeply
entrenched into the hearts of our kind."
"That's not the answer I was looking for."
"I know."
"I won't be without her."
"I know."
By the look on his face, Grom does know.
Anna Banks
#64. Nothing do I know of the law at all. But I do remember that the Bible likens human justice to a woman's unclean rag - quasi pannus menstruate - and I have little faith in truth as an immediate safeguard, in this world.
Patrick O'Brian
#65. I think there should be a law - and I know this is extreme - that no one can have a gun in the U.S. If you have a gun, you go to jail. Only the police should have guns.
Rosie O'Donnell
#66. It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us.
Andrew Greeley
#67. I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.
Roy Cohn
#68. If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! - and listens to their testimony.
James A. Baldwin
#69. It will come as no surprise to anybody to know that I support the traditional definition of marriage as a union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others, as expressed in our traditional common law.
Stephen Harper
#70. I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake
whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.
H.P. Lovecraft
#71. The whole world, from the least to the greatest, must know the truth, so that man may understand the great laws that govern his life. He must learn to control his own destiny, to heal his own body and bring happiness to his own soul.
Ernest Holmes
#72. We want to lead by our values and out interests in ways that, regardless of the trajectory over the next decade, people will know the United States was on the side of democracy, on the side of the rule of law.
Hillary Clinton
#73. All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.
Richard Lamm
#74. "Murphys law of economic policy": Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.
Alan Blinder
#75. We will find it increasingly difficult to believe that we've been set free from sin, from the law's power to condemn, and that God's smile is resting upon us if we continually give ourselves over to what we know we should avoid. Sin strips our faith, and it leads to ultimate deadness in our lives.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#76. That's Hill." She said in a voice only he could hear in the room of nearly thirty on duty Law Enforcement Officers and Officials.
"I know."
"How do you know?"
"I saw you stare him down."
"You were watching me watch him?"
Erland shrugged.
"When you put it that way.
Luke Taylor
#77. Everything in ... nature, is descended out that which is eternal, and stands as a..visible outbirth of it, so when we know how to separate out the grossness, death, and darkness..from it, we find..it in its eternal state.
William Law
#78. The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.
Gregory Bateson
#79. You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys.
Ted Cruz
#80. [It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be to rise in revolt against heaven.
Adolf Hitler
#81. Daughters hate their mothers; I think it's the law of nature. But you know what? Then they come back.
Camille
#82. He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly.
William Law
#83. Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. For the land's sake, Sarah Gale, let the earth turn on its axis, and don't be forever tryin' to stop it. There ain't but one law of progress, so far as I know, and that's by changes.
Harriet A. Nash
#85. Dude, you know I'm not getting paid for this shit, which is probably against the law. Child labor going on right here in the heartland of America!
-Dan Garrett
Leah Rae Miller
#86. Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.
Clare Boothe Luce
#87. Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature.
Charles Babbage
#88. You're Mara, you're sweet, you're beautiful and I will not forget until the day I die how beautiful it felt to slide inside you with you wrapped around me, see your eyes get wet and know straight in my gut that you felt how beautiful it was too.
Kristen Ashley
#89. You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
Randall Terry
#90. Every religion oppresses women. I talk about the Koran because I know this book best. It allows for torture and other mistreatment, especially for women. And I despise the Sharia laws. They cannot be changed. They must be thrown out, abolished.
Taslima Nasrin
#91. I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.
Margaret Anderson
#92. The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.
Roland Barthes
#93. Every vice of the Empire has been repeated in the Foundation. Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no
change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is
theirs.
Isaac Asimov
#94. Do you know how many aliens Bill Clinton deported? 12 million. Do you know how many illegal aliens, George W. Bush deported? 10 million. We can enforce the laws and if we secure the border, that solves the problem. And as president I will solve this problem and secure the border.
Ted Cruz
#95. The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.
Karl Jaspers
#96. When, she wonders, did she stop being a child? The law says it was when she turned eighteen, but the law doesn't know her.
Neal Shusterman
#97. Napoleon said that if it weren't for religion the poor would kill the rich. This may be all you needed to know about any human community. The churches were the real police stations, the real keepers of law and order.
Thomas McGuane
#98. if only my savvy worked in reverse, i thought again- and not for the last time.if only i could draw a smiling sun on the back of my hand, then everyone around me could know exactly how I felt, exactly how happy I was at that perfect moment.
Ingrid Law
#99. People who understand the power law will hesitate more than others when it comes to founding a new venture: they know how tremendously successful they could become by joining the very best company while it's growing fast.
Peter Thiel
#100. I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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