Lax Quotes

• You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough.

  Pearl Williams

  Funny, Get Well Soon, Humorous

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• States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Thinking, People, Events

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• They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.

  Philip Kaufman

  Children, Thinking, Violence

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.

  Bob Ney

  Risk, Information, Criminals

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• The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

  Richard Perle

  War, Citizens, Accepting

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.82, Random House

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• When you talk about Lacrosse, you talk about the lifeblood of the six nations. The game is ingrained into our culture and our system and our lives. (the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora)

  Oren Lyons

  Games, Lacrosse, Mohawks

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• Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Men, Criminals, Indifference

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• I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.

  Robin Williams

  Sports, Lacrosse, Church

  1982 Interview in Playboy.

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• Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.272, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.

  Joseph Joubert

  Education, Cold, Should

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• If you are not lax when at leisure, you will be effective when busy. If you are not absentminded in tranquility, that will be useful in action. If you are not hypocritical in private, that will show up in public.

  Zicheng Hong

  Taoism, Leisure, Action

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• I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Believe, Luck, Ability

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• Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

  Kamala Harris

  Hurt, Class, Enforcement

  "Kamala Harris slams Romney on housing" by Drew Joseph, www.sfgate.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.

  Vincent de Paul

  Leadership, Community, Majority

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America.

  William J. Clinton

  Islands, Years, Slave Ships

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.70, Best Books on

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• Every new movement or group of people who seek to explore awareness is considered a cult. The United States was founded by several cults. They felt that Protestantism had become much too lax, so they came to America and set up a hard line religious cult.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Buddhism, America

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• And I believe that I will never be able to hate any human being for his so-called 'wickedness,' that I shall only hate the evil that is within me, though hate is perhaps putting it too strongly even then. In any case, we cannot be lax enough in what we demand of others and strict enough in what we demand of ourselves.

  Etty Hillesum

  Hate, Believe, Evil

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.307, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and international gathering of those in transition: The euphoric, emerging from planes, their journey at an end, and the determined, about to depart.

  Henry Rollins

  Journey, Cities, Airports

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• Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Morality, Opinion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• When excesses such as lax lending standards become widespread and persist for some time, people are lulled into a false sense of security, creating an even more dangerous situation. In some cases, excesses migrate beyond regional or national borders, raising the ante for investors and governments. These excesses will eventually end, triggering a crisis at least in proportion to the degree of the excesses. Correlations between asset classes may be surprisingly high when leverage rapidly unwinds.

  Seth Klarman

  Creating, Dangerous Situations, Government

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• These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Selfish, Past

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• ...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

  Mark Twain

  Fall, Eye, Law

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.230, Courier Corporation

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• It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals.

  Alphonsus Rodriguez

  Teaching, Mean, Eye

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• If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Night, Ice Cream, Two

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• In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.

  Juan Williams

  Ideas, Effort, President

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