Lawyer Quotes

A five-minute teacher understands that peers' words can carry a lot more weight than his or her own, and there is nothing wrong with students doing the teaching.

Sometimes there is a tendency to talk about women as though we are a herd... women believe this or women want that. But we very much vote on the issues depending on what's important.

Elizabeth Cheney

The liberty of the press ought to be left where the Constitution has placed it, without any power in Congress to abridge it; that if they abridge it, they will destroy it; and that whenever that falls, all our liberties must fall with it.

George Nicholas

Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your promises.

On Richmond Hill there lives a lass More bright than Mayday morn; Whose charms all other maids' surpass — A rose without a thorn.

Leonard McNally

But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.

Jeffrey Steingarten

He [Saddam Hussein] will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

My dear, erase the word discouragement from your dictionary and your mind; it isn't worthy of a woman who hopes to be a nurse; never let me hear you say it again.

Alice S. Fisher

My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

Vincent Bugliosi

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.

Historically, it was thought that the sole or primary enemy of free expression was the State. Today, the consequences of commercial communication reveal that the private captains of the advertising empire may prove to be an enemy of equal stature.

Ronald K. L. Collins

Cheese is the biscuit of drunkards.

Alexandre Balthazar Laurent

You can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways. And microwaves that turn into cameras

Kellyanne Conway

Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon a false assumption that we somehow have all the answers - that we in fact have a corner on truth. For we do not.

There can't be any more Fallujahs. Fallujah is the 21st century equivalent of Guernica. We just went in and destroyed that city, drove the people out, killed them, thousands. We don't know how many.

If you get one good doctor, you get one good thing, but if you get one bad doctor, you get one bad thing. If you have a lawsuit, you get a bad lawyer, you lose your suit — you can appeal; but if you have one bad doctor, and he kills you, then there can be no appeal.

Nicholas Katzenbach

Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.

Albert Theodore Powers

Anyone who claims to be intrigued by the "intellectual challenge of the markets" is not a trader. The markets are as intellectually challenging as a fistfight. Ultimately, trading is an exercise in self-mastery and endurance.

What is the difference between a Lord Chancellor and a Secretary of State, the man on Clapham Omnibus could, with reason, ask. After all, that engagingly friendly and cheerful chappie, Lord Falconer, seems to be quite happy playing both roles.

Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf

Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at every moment.

Virchand Gandhi

It's said the religious right wants to force its faith on the public. But whose faith are we talking about?... Everyone who operates in the political arena wants to see their morals reflected in our laws and governmental institutions - including the National Organization of Women, the National Abortion Rights Action League, and the American Civil Liberties Union, whether or not they are willing to admit it.

Mr. Libby's story that he was at the tail end of a chain of phone calls, passing on from one reporter what he heard from another, was not true. It was false. He was at the beginning of the chain of the phone calls, the first official to disclose this information outside the government to a reporter. And he lied about it afterward, under oath and repeatedly.

Patrick Fitzgerald

Mistaken
regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human
life tend to prevent both the elimination of defective infants and the sterilization of such adults as
are themselves of no value to the community. The laws of nature require the obliteration of the
unfit and human life is valuable only when it is of use to the community or race.

In regard to all civil engineering, the first requisite is good judgment, the second requisite is good judgment, and the final requisite is GOOD JUDGMENT.