Lax famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
-- Joseph Joubert

#Education #Lax #Cold
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 #Lax
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 #Lax
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 #Lax
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 #Lax
I often think about my future wife and how lax she's been about getting in touch with me.
-- Ted Alexandro

#Thinking #Wife #Lax
I think the older you get, the more lax you get, and the less romantic you are.
-- Tom Cullen

#Thinking #Lax
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 #Lax

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.
Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.
We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?
There's nothing like the knowledge of being hanged in the morning to concentrate the mind wonderfully.
But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
Look it, let me put it to you this way. The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.
The fact that only humans above a certain age can be morally virtuous, rather than babies or cats, means that that being moral requires some cognitive ability. If virtue is about desires, it is worth remembering that you can't desire some things without being able to conceive of them. Suppose a virtuous person will desire to make people happy and desire to tell the truth. You can't desire to make people happy without having the concept "happy" and you can't desire to be truthful if you don't have have the concept "lie", so a cat or a baby cannot desire these things.
I've gotta be honest, it is a little of a mystery to me. I consider myself very sentimental, very sensitive, but obviously my outward appearance is a bit scruffy-haired, and I have a general tendency toward snarling at people, and a sort of misanthropic nature. Maybe that is what people actually read. I do actually believe that misanthropy and sensitivity go hand in hand, because I have a tremendous disappointment in the ways of the world.
China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.
On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.