In-laws Quotes - Page 13

• Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Honesty, Law, Policy

  Louisa May Alcott (1871). “Little women, and Good wives, by the author of 'An old-fashioned girl'.”

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• Lawyers from the NSA, as well as the UK's GCHQ, work very hard to search for loopholes in laws and constitutional protections that they can use to justify indiscriminate, dragnet surveillance operations that were at best unwittingly authorized by lawmakers.

  Edward Snowden

  Law, Nsa, Use

  "Snowden: NSA pressured EU into creating ‘European bazaar’ of spy networks". www.rt.com. March 7, 2014.

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• You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder...

  George Sand

  Stupid, Believe, Law

  George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press

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• don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Believe, Law, Numbers

  Lisa Scottoline (2009). “The Vendetta Defense”, p.50, Harper Collins

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• If people are worried about unfair advancement, they should look at the sons-in-law of the world running companies. They've truly slept their way to the top.

  Mary Cunningham Agee

  Success, Running, Son

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• a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.

  Caroline Pafford Miller

  Mother, Law, World

  Caroline Pafford Miller (1993). “Lamb in His Bosom”, Peachtree Pub Limited

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• My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Daughter, Fall, Mean

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• Barack Obama's mother-in-law might be moving into the White House with him. Joe Biden was right. Hostile forces will test him in the first few months.

  Jay Leno

  Mother, Moving, Law

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• until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.

  Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

  Equality, Men, Law

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• I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when youre in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. Its a great trick.

  Stephan Pastis

  Years, Law, Done

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• We learned after the first semester in law school that it's best never to discuss exams. If notes are compared afterwards, you become painfully aware of things you missed.

  John Grisham

  School, Law, Firsts

  John Grisham (1996). “The Rainmaker”, Dell

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• In 1995, we had evidence of the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden being in the Philippines, living in the Philippines. We had evidence of front organizations set up in the Philippines. And we uncovered evidence about, which would help the U.S. with - about the perpetuators of the World Trade Center bombing.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Brother, Law, Organization

  "Will World Economic Forum Actually Deal With Tough Issues?". "Diplomatic License" with Richard Roth, www.cnn.com. February 2, 2002.

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• Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a lawyer and that gives them power. In business, it's the same thing.

  Tony Robbins

  Law, Giving, Language

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.

  Mira Nair

  Father, Home, Law

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• Still putting out the O'Reilly fires of me being a traitor and using Casey's name dishonorably, my in-laws sent out a press statement disagreeing with me in strong terms; which is totally okay with me, because they barely knew Casey. We have always been on separate sides of the fence politically and I have not spoken to them since the election when they supported the man who is responsible for Casey's death. The thing that matters to me is that our family - Casey's dad and my other 3 kids are on the same side of the fence that I am.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Strong, Dad, Kids

  "Camp Casey: Day 6" by Cindy Sheehan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 12, 2005.

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• To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Mother, Country

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• I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've talked a good game of "go out and fulfill your dreams" and "be everything you were meant to be." But by the same token, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay home and raise our grandchildren.

  Erma Bombeck

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

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• A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.

  Jaime Lerner

  Mother, Law, Car

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• All my brothers, my brothers-in-law, they're always telling me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you get to be a real professor of pain.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Brother, Pain, Real

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• As far as advice goes, an ex-father in law of mine once gave me the best advice I ever heard. He said, "Take my advice and do what you want to." So with that, go on.

  Willie Nelson

  Father, Law, Advice

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.

  Jim Hamilton

  Brother, Dad, Father

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• "Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by the aunt-in-law who had moments before placed a golf club in my virgin grip. I was twenty-five, and had spent my youth in a cloisterd precinct of teh middle class where golf was a rumoured something, like champagne breakfasts and divorce, that the rich did.

  John Updike

  Divorce, Golf, Aunt

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• My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

  Loni Anderson

  Daughter, Mother, Teacher

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• The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.

  Democritus

  Daughter, Mother, Son

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 169), 1948.

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• We really have no definition of mother in our law books. Mother was believed to have been so basic that no definition was deemed necessary.

  Marianne O. Battani

  Mother, Book, Law

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