Quotes by Lawyers - Page 8

Swim or sink live or die survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

John Adams

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

Michelle Obama

All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.

Abraham Lincoln

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Dean Acheson

Democracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind, and believe in fraternity, equality, and liberty.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

You can run from the past, but it always catches up with you.

Debbi Mack

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

Owen D. Young

What saddens me most is that some poor woman out there has to be Garth's wife. And his three children -- oh, his poor three children. What a despicable human being this guy is.

Benjamin Harrison

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

William H. Seward

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

John Quincy Adams

Maxine,” Grant said, but I barely heard him. I was lost in that vision, in those emotions—the pain, and hunger for pain, forming the root of so muchagonized rage.“ ‘Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate,’” I muttered.“Yoda, from Star Wars?”“ ‘Hate leads to suffering.’” I met his gaze. “Yoda knows his shit, man.”Grant’s mouth crooked in a gentle smile.

Marjorie M. Liu

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me.

Abraham Lincoln

The faces of your young people in general are not interesting—I don't mean the children, but the young men and women—and they are awkward and clownish in their manners, without the quaintness of the elder generation, who are the funniest old dears in the world." "They will all be quaint enough as they get older. You must remember the sort of life they lead. They get their notions very slowly, and they must have notions in their heads before they can show them on their faces.

Thomas Hughes

We believe in equality for all, and privileges for none. This is a belief that each American regardless of background has equal standing in the public forum, all of us. Because we believe this idea so firmly, we are an inclusive, rather than an exclusive party. Let everybody come.

Barbara Jordan

I know he is--sensitive--on some points, Detective, but you must bear in mind how hard it is for an honest man to do his work in relative obscurity, while dishonest men attain wealth and renown. That is why corruption is so pernicious. It breaks the will of good men.

Jed Rubenfeld

For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.

Anna Funder

Now you be careful in the real world" said Armpit " Not everyone is as nice as us.

Louis Sachar

Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking fromThe weight of primary noon ...

Wallace Stevens

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other, as this Writ of Assistance is.

James Otis

Political parties serve to keep each other in check one keenly watching the other.

Henry Clay

In America an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

F. Lee Bailey

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.

Franz Kafka

People like him, who buried their past so determinedly, should not help it from the grave so easily.

Steve Berry

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.This means the when you go to sleep you close your eyes and you are and look like you are dead but then when you wake up it looks like you are reborn because you are up and ready.

Mahatma Gandhi

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Franz Kafka

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.

Lysander Spooner

Don’t you know that everything you do in life has consequences?

Kenneth Eade

Are women human yet? If women were human, would we be a cash crop shipped from Thailand in containers into New York's brothels...? Would our genitals be sliced out to "cleanse" us...? When will women be human? When? ~ Half The Sky

Catherine Mackinnon

At the end of a long introduction: You omitted perhaps one thing - that in 1974 I had a hemorrhoidectomy.

Howell Heflin

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing, nothing, the whole long day, nothing.

Franz Kafka

Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

Franz Kafka

With soap baptism is a good thing.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Lies are like muscles: it takes practice to make them strong.

Jeff Ashton

The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny.

Calvin Coolidge

The meaning of life is that it ends

Franz Kafka

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

Franz Kafka

It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years to form a language; that it is of exceedingly slow growth. We also know that by language, man conveys to his fellows the impressions made upon him by what he sees, hears, smells and touches. We know that the language of the savage consists of a few sounds, capable of expressing only a few ideas or states of the mind, such as love, desire, fear, hatred, aversion and contempt. Many centuries are required to produce a language capable of expressing complex ideas. It does not seem to me that ideas can be manufactured by a deity and put in the brain of man. These ideas must be the result of observation and experience.

Robert G. Ingersoll

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.

Mahatma Gandhi

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.

Robert G. Ingersoll

I remember a new heaviness in my body, but maybe that's the work of time and my looking back.

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

My sisters and I stand on the deck, the shale tile cool against the soles of our feet - for a week it seems we never have to wear shoes - and take turns twirling, the matching turquoise silk skirts my mother bought us sliding coolly up our legs, our laughter flying out over the ocean. We are all light and happy and far, far away from home.

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

Franz Kafka

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy but we want to be happier than other people which is almost always difficult since we think them happier than they are.

Charles de Montesquieu

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Mahatma Gandhi

One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully and slowly so that even you will understand it. If I was the sheriff, I would not have arrested him. If I was on the grand jury, I would not have indicted him. If I was the judge, I would not try him. If I was the D.A., I would not prosecute him. If I was on the trial jury, I would vote to give him a key to the city, a plaque to hang on his wall, and I would send him home to his family. And, Mr. Buckley, if my daughter is ever raped, I hope I have the guts to do what he did.

John Grisham

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

During last night’s insomnia, as these thoughts came and went between my aching temples, I realised once again, what I had almost forgotten in this recent period of relative calm, that I tread a terribly tenuous, indeed almost non-existent soil spread over a pit full of shadows, whence the powers of darkness emerge at will to destroy my life…

Franz Kafka

While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils.

Mahatma Gandhi

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Abraham Lincoln

An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.No. 75

Alexander Hamilton

A woman's love for a man is ha;f animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him. If a man is worth having, he must be a woman's superior; if he is her superior, part of her must hate him. It is only in beauty we surpass you, and it is therefore no wonder that we worship beauty above all else.

Jed Rubenfeld

It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for faith, for love or repugnance, for courage or anxiety, in particular or in general, only a vague hope lives on, but no better than the inscriptions on tombstones.

Franz Kafka

You see the mistakes of one system—the surveillance—and the mistakes of the other—the inequality—but there’s nothing you could have done in the one and nothing you can do now about the other. She laughs wryly. “And the clearer you see that, the worse you feel.

Anna Funder

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

As a children’s minister, I always believed that I was an evangelist, and at the end of the book, there’s a simple prayer that, whoever’s reading the book could accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior

Soraya Diase Coffelt

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