The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation. — Francois Furet Copy Share Image
“What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Kings don't beg, they decree. They have only one destiny and that's to reign. God has made you king. Reign and rule,… — Chris Oyakhilome Copy Share Image
Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when… — Clement Freud Copy Share Image
“Don't live by your thoughts only; live by your words also. Whatever plans you think about, affirm it in your mouth first,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, "I can't afford it,"… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Sin must be within God's eternal decrees in some sense in which He is not the author of it . . .… — J. Oliver Buswell Copy Share Image
The Lord recently spoke a powerful word to me, 'No more delay!' This word has many applications, which the Lord led me… — Dutch Sheets Copy Share Image
State governments seek local remedies for the globally fabricated deprivations and miseries in vain - just as the individuals-by-the-decree-of-fate (read: by the… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth… — John Donne Copy Share Image
At the very heart and center of existence, pervading the whole manifestation of the divine Idea, there exists one predominant Law. This… — Geoffrey Hodson Copy Share Image
Repeatedly and frankly we have announced that in Irans national security doctrine there is no room for atomic and chemical weapons as… — Ali Larijani Copy Share Image
Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Ham will continue to be servant of servants, as the Lord decreed, until the curse is removed. will the present struggle free… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand. — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free. — Shere Hite Copy Share Image
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
