#aw

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#bodies #governed #invariable #laws #like

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#different #founded #good #injury #interests

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#act #arbitrary #atheists #could #creation

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#arise #because #body #enact #execute

Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it. ↗

— David Sedaris

#boy #could #exaggerate #get #i

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry. ↗

— David Sedaris

#because #cry #feel #glee #i

Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered. ↗

— David Sedaris

#award #bothered #could #i #i wish

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me. ↗

— Kyra Sedgwick

#because #blown #blown away #character #embodied

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other. ↗

— Lisa See

#back up #come #each #friendship #last

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#i #lawyers #our #pay #pretend