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Amy Johnson

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KELLY JONES Amy Pond: 'I thought... well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.'
The Doctor...
STEVEN MOFFAT The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you j...
STEVEN MOFFAT The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly...
MARGARET MITCHELL The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly...
MARGARET MITCHELL The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think th...
STEVEN MOFFAT The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, shoul...
TERRY EAGLETON We've found that harassers tend to be white collar, don't have a criminal records, are not Internet ...
JAYNE HITCHCOCK Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors...
ANTON CHEKHOV Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas do...
ANTON CHEKHOV The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't e...
AYN RAND The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
MARK TWAIN When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.
RICHARD M. NIXON I used to want to be a Lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
MAX WALKER If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
GEORGE SAVILE The average lawyer is essentially a mechanic who works with a pen instead of a ball peen hammer.
ROBERT SCHMITT Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large thin...
SOLON A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed
RENE DESCARTES The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob ...
ANTON CHEKHOV There are doctors who help people who have done bad things; there are lawyers who defend bad people....
SEAN SPICER A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants ...
JEAN KERR I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.
ROY M. COHN I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
MARIA EDGEWORTH Come when you're called And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you And you'll never be chid
MARIA EDGEWORTH Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, ...
PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON The sexes in each species of being . . . are always true equivalents -- equals but not identical.
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL The law of grab is the primal law of infancy
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perver...
JONATHAN SWIFT I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't ...
JIMMY CARTER Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers
SPANISH PROVERB A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.
MARIO PUZO The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Laws do not persuade because they threaten
SENECA Law is an ass, an idiot.
CHARLES DICKENS I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
ROY M. COHN Should I have the good fortune to fall in with him again, I'll make a lord of him.
JOHN PAUL JONES Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if th...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Laws can discover sin, but not remove it
JOHN MILTON The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass
JANE BRYANT QUINN The robes of lawyers are lined with the obstinacy of clients
PROVERB There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
DEREK BOK A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break
CHARLES JOHN DARLING The law is above the law, you know
DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS The lawyer's first thought in the morning is how to handle the case of the ringing alarm clock.
EDWARD PACKARD, JR. Term rates keep dropping and dropping and dropping; it's just amazing.
JANE BRYANT QUINN You can't build new ones, so you keep what you have.
LARRY WALL When the tribe first sat down in a circle and agreed to allow only one person to speak at a time - t...
JUDGE CURTIS BOK I was thinking, maybe, the child was still alive.
JOHN SMITH Everyone in my story has it's own character, GreenHollyWood cheeky, hypocritical and near to mad guy...
DEYTH BANGER Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. t...
IRVING R. KAUFMAN Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers ...
SMOKEY ROBINSON Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.
AMY HARMON 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON A man must be potent and orgasmic to ensure the future of the race.
A woman only needs to be avai...
MASTERS AND JOHNSON All of those Civil War soldiers same to be the first legislators and lawyers, sheriffs,doctors and t...
ANDY MASICH Weight gain can happen at any point in time, and it is something that you are dealing with anyway, a...
AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN There are only two sorts of doctors: those who practice with their brains, and those who practice wi...
WILLIAM OSLER Amy and someone. I don't know who.
LORNE MICHAELS The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and ...
JOHN ADAMS We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.
ROY M. COHN Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
MARIA EDGEWORTH You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sickness he ...
JOHN SMITH A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her ...
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL Our system is not one of justice, but of law
EDNA BUCHANAN It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a con...
LUCILLE KALLEN There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
GRETA GARBO All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of or...
EDMUND BURKE Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced
ELBERT HUBBARD For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intellige...
JOHN LOCKE He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
PROVERB The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right sho...
MARIA EDGEWORTH The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and ...
JIMMY CARTER Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how th...
HART POMERANTZ The law is silent during war
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant. instead of my master.
BRIGHAM YOUNG Law never made men a whit more just.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law ...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT There's a greater law than the FDA, and that is an obligation of a doctor to try to do anything he c...
DR. CECIL VAUGHN While law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go roun...
FRED RODELL What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
LARRY WALL I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.
LARRY WALL Beauty? What's that?
LARRY WALL I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Our guys are making so many strides. They're understanding the game better. ... But they're still le...
JOHN SMITH The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY

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AMY TAN People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.&...
AMY TAN My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was ...
AMY TAN It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
AMY TAN I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what ...
AMY TAN I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of ...
AMY TAN I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to ...
AMY TAN There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being ri...
AMY TAN I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate obse...
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