In-laws Quotes - Page 9

• I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Hands, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (1998). “Thomas Jefferson: His Words and Vision”, p.18, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.

  Dan Gable

  Mom, Daughter, Dad

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• Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

  Albert Einstein

  Wise, Order, Law

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.384, Princeton University Press

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• My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.

  Stuart Symington

  Father, Military, Army

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• OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Law, Deities, Made

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.151, 谷月社

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• I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Government, Law, Evil

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• ... the most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his mother-in-law ... it looks as if it had been made out of a sow's ear for the spathe, and the tail of a rat that died of Elephantiasis for the spadix. The whole thing is mingling of unwholesome greens, livid purples, and pallid pinks, the livery of putrescence in fact, and it possesses and odour to match the colouring.

  Edward Augustus Bowles

  Mother, Nature, Flower

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• Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.

  Ruth First

  Writing, Law, Occupation

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• My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.

  Patricia Heaton

  Mother, Hands, Law

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• While the happy couple are enjoying the thrill of the rose garden, the in-laws are saying that they are just not right for each other. We keep telling them that they cannot pay couples to stay together, and it is clear that it will take more than a three-quid-a-week tax break to keep this marriage together.

  Harriet Harman

  Couple, Garden, Law

  House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. May 25, 2010.

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• When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin N.] Cardozo. But you go back and read their prose and it's sort of perfumed and very ornate and show-offy. And they're constantly striving for these abstractions that seem archaic nowadays.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  School, Law, People

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. If my brother gets hit by a car tomorrow, my sister-in-law will go on living materially in the same way that she does now. If the same thing happens to me, a great deal of what I have will go off to the taxman. That's because of one of, as you doubtless know, eleven hundred federal laws that favor marriage.

  Andrew Solomon

  Brother, Gay, Sister In Law

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• I'm very happy with the outcome of the vote ... I totally, totally support equal marriage in law. I don't want anybody in society feeling second best. I don't believe that being gay is a sin.

  Stephen Crabb

  Believe, Gay, Law

  "Brexit: Crabb and Fox out of Tory race after May wins first round of voting - As it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Claire Phipps and Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I had this question asked to me recently when I was buying food for my wife and brother in law and I would like to ask it to other people: Why is it that most celebrities pay with cash as opposed to credit card? Is it so that they are not recognized right away and want to be more unassuming?

  A. J. McLean

  Brother, Law, People

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• Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your parents or your in-laws not be annoying in the way that they're annoying, these are sometimes doomed goals.

  Ian Bogost

  Art, Crazy, Kids

  Source: app.longform.org

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• The death of distance. There is hardly any middle class family in India who doesn't have a son, a daughter, a son-in-law, a brother, a brother-in-law in the United States. That is a very powerful new bond.

  Manmohan Singh

  Daughter, Brother, Powerful

  "Dr Manmohan Singh's interview with Charlie Rose". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. March 1, 2006.

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• People shouldn't be afraid to bring up issues of bias in law enforcement.

  Tim Kaine

  Law, Issues, People

  Twitter post from Oct 4, 2016

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• We have got to do a better job recognizing and correcting the errors in the system that do reflect an institutional bias in criminal justice, but what Donald Trump and I are saying is let's not have the reflex of assuming the worst of men and women in law enforcement.

  Mike Pence

  Jobs, Men, Errors

  Source: www.politico.com

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• And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Brother, Children, Sister In Law

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• With 28 million children eating lunch at school every day in the United States, I believe government has an obligation to ensure parents have some peace of mind when they send their children off to school in the morning, .. Since children are particularly vulnerable to foodborne illness, schools must be vigilant in their efforts to ensure that cafeterias are not putting children at risk. These changes in law will support parents who want to work with school principals and food-service directors to ensure a safe environment.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Morning, Children, Believe

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• The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.

  William Rathbone Greg

  Daughter, Son, Men

  William Rathbone Greg (1851). “The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure”, p.98

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• Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Women, Law, Yesterday

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1914). “The Philistine”

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• I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room encouraged by one in-law to visit another little birdlike women without any nest eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves?

  Tennessee Williams

  Brother, Husband, Humility

  Tennessee Williams (1996). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.12, Heinemann

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• Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.

  Edward Coke

  Prayer, Sleep, Law

  Translation of a quotation taken by Coke from Justinian 'The Pandects' (or 'Digest') bk. 2, ch. 4 'De in Jus Vocando'.

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• In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.

  Anthony Trollope

  Cousin, Brother, Uncles

  Anthony Trollope (2011). “Phineas Redux”, p.95, OUP Oxford

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