The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.

If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.

Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.

But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.

It is strange how little harm bad codes do.

Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say.

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative.

Accent your positive and delete your negative.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

I do my job in Type O Negative.

My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back.

None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.

My tastes lean toward the more negative, angry and eclectic.

Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.

I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.

I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it.

When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.