Famous quotes containing the words laws and/or act:
“The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.”
—Claude Monet (1840–1926)