"Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off."

-- Diogenes

#Law Quotes #Cobwebs Quotes #Speech Quotes

“It's important to listen to those around you, and ultimately you have to decide which path you're going to go down.”
“One day, to everyoneâ€™s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.”
“Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.”

Source : NY Journal-American, August 25, 1965.
“I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction”
“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
“... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.”
“Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What... happened?" Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.”
“With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death. A decision in favor of a Soviet could not be opposed by the Young Turks.”

Source : "Djemal Pasha In Moscow", New York Times, June 17, 1920.

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