“Holly: Seven and a half hours to save the world. Isn’t there some law that says we get twenty-four?
Artemis I don't think Opal pays much attention to laws.”
Source: Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (2005)
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Eoin Colfer185
Irish author of children's books 1965Related quotes
“Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.”
William Jones (1746–1794) Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India
Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) Compare: "Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix", Translation of lines quoted by Edward Coke.
“We don't pay judges to think; we pay judges to rule on the law.”
Jeff Sessions (1946) Former United States Attorney General
Regarding judicial activism while debating on the Senate floor on 06 June 2005 regarding the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the federal judiciary.
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Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer
Discussing phone hacking http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/leveson-inquiry/8932864/Sir-Paul-McCartney-had-phone-hacked.html
Chris Hedges (1956) American journalist
Source: On Contact: Business secrets of drug dealing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5U3eSPvfMo&t=285s RT America, November 20, 2021
Mary Renault book The Charioteer
Source: The Charioteer (1953), p. 285
Context: You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets so that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.
Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954) American judge
Reported in Eugene Gerhart, America's Advocate: Robert H. Jackson (1958), p. 289
Robert LeFevre (1911–1986) American libertarian businessman
Rampart Institute, (Society for Libertarian Life edition), from 1977 speech, p. 8.
Good Government: Hope or Illusion? (1978)