He also extended to her an invitation to stay in a University residence when she came to Charlottesville to deliver her statement to the commonwealth's attorney.
Quotes about commonwealths (10 Quotes)
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state. On the margin of his own copy of Dialogue on the Great World Systems.
While much work remains to be accomplished to level the international playing field as it relates to international trade, passage of the anti-counterfeiting bill is a significant step in the right direction towards a fair trade situation for the Commonwealth's manufacturing community.
I feel I've lost ground. I got to 22, I'd been to the finals of the Olympics, the Commonwealths, Worlds and Europeans and you think, 'This is it, 23, time to do it.' I'm now 24 and time moves on.
The Commonwealths are high on the list after 2002. That was one of our big disappointments. We know we can beat anyone in the world.
It has always been my ambition to win a major outdoor title and that will be the plan at the Commonwealths.
Senator Kennedy is committed to ensuring that this program continues and that the commonwealth's proud history in military technology continues to grow and expand.
Show me the enforced laws of a state for the prevention of cruelty to animals and I in turn will give you a correct estimate of the refinement, enlightenment, integrity and equity of that commonwealth's people.
COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude of political parasites, logically active but fortuitously efficient. This commonwealth's capitol's corridors view, So thronged with a hungry and indolent crew Of clerks, pages, porters and all attaches Whom rascals appoint and the populace pays That a cat cannot slip through the thicket of shins Nor hear its own shriek for the noise of their chins. On clerks and on pages, and porters, and all, Misfortune attend and disaster befall May life be to them a succession of hurts May fleas by the bushel inhabit their shirts May aches and diseases encamp in their bones, Their lungs full of tubercles, bladders of stones May microbes, bacilli, their tissues infest, And tapeworms securely their bowels digest May corn-cobs be snared without hope in their hair, And frequent impalement their pleasure impair. Disturbed be their dreams by the awful discourse Of audible sofas sepulchrally hoarse, By chairs acrobatic and wavering floors -- The mattress that kicks and the pillow that snores Sons of cupidity, cradled in sin Your criminal ranks may the death angel thin, Avenging the friend whom I couldn't work in. --K. Q.