Quotes by Lawyers - Page 5

Franz Kafka

I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any

Mahatma Gandhi

Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results.

Franz Kafka

Time is Short. Take Time to Travel.

Barbara K Olson

The face of a golden retriever feels like home.

David Rosenfelt

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Abraham Lincoln

Then join in hand brave Americans all! By uniting we stand by dividing we fall.

John Dickinson

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.

Robert G. Ingersoll

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Abraham Lincoln

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

Properly understood, then, the scriptures counsel us to be virtuous not because romantic love is bad, but precisely because romantic love is so good. It is not only good; it is pure, precious, even sacred and holy.

Bruce C. Hafen

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,they are vexations to the spirit.

Max Ehrmann

The real problem is I'm greedy. I want complete, utter, unceasing bliss. But I don't want to fall into it either. If happiness were money I wouldn't want to win the lottery. I want to accomplish it, urn it as John Houseman would say. I want it to be an achievement because I want to be in control of my life. I don't want things to happen to me, I want them to happen because of me. Power I want. I want to feel the way I do when I stretch a new canvas and I want to feel that way all the time. the blank canvas fills me with the power of imminent creation. I'm its god an it always bends to my will and when I'm done I know, inside, that it's markedly better than what almost all of my similarly-engaged others can achieve. That's happiness.

Sergio de la Pava

Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.

Jed Rubenfeld

The story of Canada is that if one meeting fails you have another meeting.

Robert Rae

Courtroom experience is one of the most important factors that is crucial for a successful career of a lawyer

Chris Salamone

It struck me then, for the first time, how unethical anxiety is, how it voids the reality of other people by conscripting them as palliatives for your own fear.

Adam Haslett

Shockingly, too many of our children don't read to grade level. Studies show that if a child does not read to grade level by third grade, that child is likely to drop out of school. I believe the love of reading begins at home. We should do all we can to make sure that our children and grandchildren stay in school and graduate. Reading to grade level is an important foundation.

Soraya Diase Coffelt

Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of themoon.It was only a glass because he looked in it. It was nothing hecould be told.It was a language he spoke, because he must, yet did not know.It was a page he had found in the handbook of heartbreak.

Wallace Stevens

As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what must happen to old married couples, I thought: the young man is preserved in the old one for her, the beauty and grace of the young woman stay fresh in the old one for him.

Bernhard Schlink

The idea of freedom is complex and it is all-encompassing. It’s the idea that the economy must remain free of government persuasion. It’s the idea that the press must operate without government intrusion. And it’s the idea that the emails and phone records of Americans should remain free from government search and seizure. It’s the idea that parents must be the decision makers in regards to their children's education — not some government bureaucrat.But most importantly, it is the idea that the individual must be free to pursue his or her own happiness free from government dependence and free from government control. Because to be truly free is to be reliant on no one other than the author of our destiny. These are the ideas at the core of the Republican Party, and it is why I am a Republican. So my brothers and sisters of the American community, please join with me today in abandoning the government plantation and the Party of disappointment. So that we may all echo the words of one Republican leader who famously said, "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last.

Elbert Guillory

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

Mahatma Gandhi

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

Cicero

A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.

Dean Acheson

Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God,' - this appears to be the commandment in all religions. This need not frighten anyone. He who devotes himself to service with a clear conscience, will day by day grasp the necessity for it in greater measure, and will continually grow richer in faith. The path of service can hardly be trodden by one who is not prepared to renounce self-interest, and to recognize the conditions of his birth. Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make not only for our own happiness but that of the world at large.

Mahatma Gandhi

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

Charles J. Ingersoll

In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Example has more followers than reason.

Christian Bovee

Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come to my grave and truthfully say: 'He who sleeps here never gave us a moment of pain. From his lips, now dust, never came to us an unkind word.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune,that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide,lost in a forest remote from all human habitation

Franz Kafka

Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.

Abraham Lincoln

Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again.

Thomas Hughes

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.

Christian Bovee

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

Glenn Greenwald

Just as love makes you blind so does wealth, and of the two blindnesses wealth is the worse because of the incalculable harm it is able to do to people other than yourself.

Rufus King

From oriole to crow, note the declineIn music. Crow is realist. But, then,Oriole, also, may be realist.

Wallace Stevens

The evidence which we have of the great facts of the Bible history belongs to this class, that is, it is moral evidence; sufficient to satisfy any rational mind, by carrying it to the highest degree of moral certainty. If such evidence well justify the taking away of human life or liberty, in the one case, surely it ought to be deemed sufficient to determine our faith in the other.

Simon Greenleaf

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.

Thomas Morton

The second sober thought of the people is seldom wrong and always efficient.

Martin Van Buren

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

A sharp bolt of hunger hit Luther hard. His knees almost buckled, his poker face almost grimaced. For two weeks now his sense of smell had been much keener, no doubt a side effect of a strict diet. Maybe he got a whiff of Mabel's finest, he wasn't sure, but a craving came over him. Suddenly, he had to have something to eat. Suddenly, he wanted to snatch the bag from Kendall, rip open a package, and start gnawing on a fruitcake.

John Grisham

There are three things a man must do alone. Be born die and testify.

James J. Walker

The problem with nostalgia is what we tend to do is only remember what you like and you forget the parts you didn't like,

John Edwards

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Moral rights form the essence of copyright law. When they conflict with economic rights, moral rights must always prevent

Kalyan C. Kankanala

In a way, I was safe writing

Franz Kafka

But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me to sit here on this stoop in summer camp as if I were normal, day after day wearing down everybody who gets near me. My behavior seems, somehow, not acute enough for them to know what to do with me, though I’m just enough of a mess to be driving everyone around me crazy.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

Dean Acheson

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

Mahatma Gandhi

they ask for water we give them seathey ask for bread we give them seathey ask for life we give them only the sea

M. NourbeSe Philip

[you’ll acquire] A certain amount of cynicism. This business works on you. When you were in law school you had some noble idea what a lawyer should be. A champion of individual rights; a defender of the Constitution; a guardian of the oppressed; an advocate for your client’s principles. Then after you practice for six months you realize you were nothing but hired guns. Mouthpieces for sale to the highest bidder, available to anybody, any crook, any sleazebag with enough money to pay your outrageous fees. Nothing shocks you. It’s supposed to be an honorable profession, but you’ll meet so many crooked lawyers you’ll want to quit and find an honest job. Yeah Mitch, you’ll get cynical. And it’s sad, really.

John Grisham

So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob.

William Landay

I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

Glenn Greenwald

Brent had a love-hate relationship with the Government. He hated what it had become over the years and loved to make an issue about it.

Kenneth Eade

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

Mahatma Gandhi

Our democracy depends on an informed citizenry to survive, Your Honor. Besides the advancement of truth, science and morality in general, the freedom of the press is a backbone of democracy. It exists to keep the government transparent, and the human instruments of government honest.

Kenneth Eade

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private rants of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia.

Russell H. Conwell

He heard her low accord,Half prayer and half ditty,And He felt a subtle quiver,That was not heavenly love,Or pity.This is not writIn any book.

Wallace Stevens

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