All Quotes

'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way.
‐‐ Dennis Quaid

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
‐‐ Andrew Johnson

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.
‐‐ Leland Stanford

Legislation is the only lasting solution for the men and women brought to this country through no fault of their own who want to perform the ultimate act of patriotism in defending America.
‐‐ Jeff Denham

Legislation must be passed which undoes the damage caused by excessive de-regulation. That means reinstalling the regulatory firewalls that were ripped down in 1999.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

Legislation on Lyme disease, weather patterns, helping farmers, helping veterans - these are not partisan issues.
‐‐ Chris Gibson

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.
‐‐ Chris Chocola

Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.
‐‐ Justin Amash

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.
‐‐ Susan Rice

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.
‐‐ Roger Wicker

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
‐‐ Saul Williams

Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.
‐‐ John Roberts

Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin

Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people. Jurors, on the other hand, are exposed to none of these temptations.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.
‐‐ Bud Grant

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
‐‐ Barney Frank

Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools.
‐‐ David Souter

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
‐‐ Earl Warren

Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.
‐‐ Gary Weiss

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.
‐‐ Shaffi Mather

Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.
‐‐ Robin Morgan

Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror - actions which any sovereign state is obligated to undertake to ensure the security of its citizens - are presented by those who hate Israel as aggressive, Nazi-like steps.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
‐‐ Ron Paul

Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.
‐‐ Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

Legolas is that kind of action elf who pouts a bit, stares off to the distance, and has a couple hero moments, killing with a lethal bow and arrow along the way.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

Leh has few of what Europeans regard as travelling necessaries. The brick tea which I purchased from a Lhassa trader was disgusting. I afterwards understood that blood is used in making up the blocks. The flour was gritty, and a leg of mutton turned out to be a limb of a goat of much experience.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

Lei Feng is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 - struck by a falling telephone pole.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

Leia follows me like a vague smell.
‐‐ Carrie Fisher

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
‐‐ Robert Trout

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
‐‐ Mortimer Adler

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
‐‐ Branch Rickey

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
‐‐ Thomas Hobbes

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

Lemaitre has been one of my inspirations ever since I started making music.
‐‐ Kygo

Lemons clean everything. It's the greatest disinfectant.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock

Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.
‐‐ Suzi Quatro

Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.
‐‐ Alvin Ailey

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich

Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income will a household need to put into debt repayment? How large is the down payment? Does the borrower have a job with a stable income? What is the borrower's credit score?
‐‐ Mark Zandi

Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.
‐‐ Samuel Smiles

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
‐‐ George Washington

Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.
‐‐ Kim Il-sung

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
‐‐ Garet Garrett