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Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies. Jenks (Black Magic Sanction) -- Kim Harrison
I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison -- Kim Harrison
Go to sleep, baby,Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiments so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.-Pierce's LullabyKim Harrison (Black Magic Sanction)" -- Kim Harrison
Go to sleep, baby,Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiments so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.-Pierce's Lullaby Kim Harrison (Black Magic Sanction) -- Kim Harrison
Evil requires the sanction of the victim. -- Ayn Rand
No sanction can stand against ignited minds. -- Abdul Kalam
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. -- George Santayana
Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction. -- Comte de Lautreamont
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. -- George Santayana
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. -- Walter Benjamin
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. -- Andrea Dworkin
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. -- Anita Brookner
The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience. -- Pankaj Mishra
You are always trying to please people before you get to the public whenever you do anything that requires a corporate body to sanction it. -- Rita Rudner
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. -- Joseph Addison
If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused. -- Steve Coogan
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. -- Benjamin Franklin
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction. -- Lysander Spooner
You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work. -- Dev Anand
When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty. -- Bobby Jindal
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. -- Bernadine Dohrn
How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation. -- Paul Harris
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. -- Edmund Burke
Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as 'employee satisfaction results' - might improve. -- Tom Hodgkinson
As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws. -- David Brainerd
We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
We believe that unilateral sanctions violate international law, in fact. They violate free trade. They violate human growth and development, human development, and that when you actually sanction a bank of a country, the meaning of it is quite clear. You're sanctioning medicine for the people. -- Hassan Rouhani
In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council could sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state are inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression. -- Vladimir Putin
I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time. -- John Naisbitt
We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it. -- Michael Moore
Do not sanction an absurdity. -- Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis
Justice is the sanction of established injustice. -- Anatole France
Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction. -- George Washington
No sanction can stand against ignited minds. -- Abdul Kalam
Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace. -- Woodrow Wilson
To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it. -- Ayn Rand
I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility. -- Jim Steranko
Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council. -- Li Zhaoxing
... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. -- George Washington
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. -- Ayn Rand
The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance. -- George Washington
But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times . . . -- Edward Gibbon
the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction. -- Letty M. Russell
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination -- Andrea Dworkin
I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective. -- George W. Bush
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable. -- William Wycherley
Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. -- Ayn Rand
My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it. -- Jacques Hadamard
The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements. -- Sri Aurobindo
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers. -- William Robertson Smith
Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty. -- William Ellery Channing
We declare that one who uses the God-given body of another without divine sanction abuses the very soul of that individual, abuses the central purpose and processes of life. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
We understand that the Iranian position is very bad because of the well-known sanctions against that country, and it would be unfair to leave it on this sanction level. -- Vladimir Putin
(The United States) is the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag, calling on the name a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem! -- Jeremiah Wright
Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state. -- James Joyce
It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile. -- Earl Warren
Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. -- Bernadine Dohrn
Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience. -- Alexander Hamilton
It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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