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

  Robin Williams

  Sports, Lacrosse, Church

  1982 Interview in Playboy.

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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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• 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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• Although the District of Columbiahas had a ban on handgun sale and possession since 1976, Washingtonresidents are held hostage by the lax gun laws of surroundingjurisdictions.

  Josh Sugarmann

  Gun, Law, Bans

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• Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity. To the contrary, he destroyed its most attractive and dynamic aspects, turning a high-intensity, grassroots movement into an arrogant institution controlled by an elite who often managed to be both brutal and lax.

  Rodney Stark

  Long, Triumph, Arrogant

  "For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery". Book by Rodney Stark, August 29, 2004.

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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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• ...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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• The rules of engagement are so lax that soldiers are shooting and killing Iraqis under mere suspicion, and tragedies are everyday. There are road killings, killings on the road when someone is trying to pass a convoy and they get shot. Or if a roadside bomb goes off, the soldiers just start shooting in all directions.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  Soldier, Everyday, Tragedy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• I often think about my future wife and how lax she's been about getting in touch with me.

  Ted Alexandro

  Thinking, Wife, My Future

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• It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit. . . . No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?

  Francois Fenelon

  Love, Believe, Sacrifice

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• How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them. Do they not see the harm resulting from excess in certain gymnastic exercises and sports not suitable for virtuous girls? What sins are committed or provoked by conversations which are too free, by immodest shows, by dangerous reading. How lax have consciences become, how pagan morals!

  Pope Pius XII

  Girl, Sports, Reading

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• For the first time, I notice the lax skin at Mrs. Nightwing's jaw, the fine down that lies upon her cheek like the imprint of a childe's hand, and I wonder what it must be like watching yourself soften under the years, unable to stop it. what it's like measuring your days in perfecting girls' curtsies and drinking nightly glasses of sherry, trying to keep up with the world as it pulls you spinning into the furure, knowing you are always one step behind it.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Lying, Drinking

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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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• You've got food stuck in your teeth," Vee told Marcie. "In the crack between your two front teeth. Looks like chocolate Ex-Lax.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Two, Chocolate, Looks

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Is that why you came?' 'No, I came because I simply can't get enough of people looking down their noses at me. The girls at school are getting frightfully lax about it.' 'Are they? How remiss of them. We're taught from the cradle how to look down our noses, you know, we rich sons of bitches. Perhaps Westcliffe's curriculum is a tad too liberal these days.

  Shana Abe

  Girl, School, Son

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• Be not lax in celebrating.
  Be not lazy in the festive service of God.
  Be ablaze with enthusiasm.
  Let us be an alive, burning offering before the altar of God.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Peace, Offering, Lazy

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