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A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!
— William Beveridge
Both individual fulfillment and the ecological balance of life on this planet are best served by dying when our inherent biology decrees that we do.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
The war is in the mountains," he said. "For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation.
— Francois Furet
Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.
— Letitia Baldrige
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.
— John Tillotson
A dictator decrees," she later wrote, "a president asks Congress for permission to organize.
— Denise Kiernan
There is no etiquette rule that decrees one must give out personal information to anyone who asks.
— Judith Martin
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
— Phillips Brooks
Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.
— Phillips Brooks
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
— Simone De Beauvoir
It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
— Felix Frankfurter
For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Holy Scripture could never lie or err ... its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
— Galileo Galilei
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
God neither wills nor decrees anything without having long before directed it to its proper end. People
— John Calvin
More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.
— Jim Beaver
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.
— Jessica Mitford
Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.
— Charles Spurgeon
Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.
— Marion LeRoy Burton
The departments are shit; decrees are shit.
— Vladimir Lenin
