Court Quotes - Page 24

• Im just trying to be positive. I like the guys (Im) around. Even though were not at the record Id like to be, even after a loss, guys are mad, but then we have fun and you move on. They look up to me. Ive been around eight years. A lot of these guys were in junior high or high school when I came into the NBA. I see how much of an influence I am off the court. I try to be careful how I approach things on and off the court, because I know these guys are watching.

  Paul Pierce

  Fun, Moving, School

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• I'm a competitive player, and I love being on the court. If the NBA cancels the season I'm definitely looking at my options and considering going overseas.

  Paul Pierce

  Player, Love Is, Nba

  "Paul Pierce: Players needed to make stand". Interview with Marc J. Spears, www.yahoo.com. November 20, 2011.

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• If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking - one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.

  Edward Hoagland

  Sports, Journey, Rivers

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• No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.

  Adam Hochschild

  Justice, Pieces, Substitutes

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• History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!

  Leon Trotsky

  War, Slave Owners, Different

  Leon Trotsky (1968). “Their morals and ours: and , The moralists and sycophants against Marxism”

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• I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Winning, Laughing, Centre

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• To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face:
  Four ways in court to win man's grace.

  Roger Ascham

  Lying, Winning, Men

  Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works. A New Ed”, p.223

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• Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.

  Matt Taibbi

  Poverty, Population, Our Society

  Matt Taibbi (2014). “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap”, p.28, Spiegel & Grau

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• There is no proof. There are no authorities whatever. No president, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has the knowledge or power to decide what will be the knowledge of tomorrow. There is no use in trying to prove something that is unknown to somebody who is ignorant of the unknown, or fearful of its threatening power. Only the good old rules of learning will eventually bring about understanding of what has invaded our earthly existence.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Law, Understanding, Ignorant

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• The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

  Erich Auerbach

  Rebel, Stories, Favors

  Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said (2013). “Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.

  Mitch McConnell

  Issues, Political, Speech

  Koch Brothers Donor Summit speech, ladylibertine.net. June 15, 2014.

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• The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.

  Andrew Jackson

  Acting, May, Influence

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.237

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• For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor is also a lawyer, and he too has a client: the People. And the People are equally entitled to their day in court, to a fair and impartial trial, and to justice.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Betrayal, People, Justice

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• Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members of APA, not to mention the courts.

  Peter Breggin

  Presidential, Decision, Disease

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• But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Years, Law, People

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• Faith will get in the ditch with you, faith will go in the prison with you, faith will go into divorce court with you, faith will go in the hospital with you, faith will go in the nursing home with you.

  T. D. Jakes

  Home, Divorce, Nursing

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• There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law,I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.Some of the promises,it's true,you make to young,before you really have an understanding of what they mean.But once you've made those first promises,other promises are called for.And the thing is you can't deny the new ones without betraying the old ones.The promises get bigger,there are more people to be hurt and disappointed if you don't live up to them.Then, at some point, your called upon to make a promise to a dying man.

  Paul Castellano

  Hurt, Mean, Men

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• War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage.

  Dick Motta

  War, Home, Games

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• What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of Molière, or the ingenious stage mechanisms of Pixérécourt? Or was it simply the opportunity to cast an eye, without shame, upon the living, unclad human form?

  Ben Katchor

  Ghetto, Eye, Opportunity

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• If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

  A. E. Waite

  Fall, Hands, Cards

  A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.208, Courier Corporation

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• I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it.

  Richard Helms

  Years, People, Done

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• [American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.

  Alec Baldwin

  Night, Lawyer, Cry

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• He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Independent, Men, Jail

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

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• There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

  Harold Pinter

  America, Criminals, United States

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• The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may glimpse something that seems of interest. But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention. Imagination is at once the source of all hope and inspiration but also of frustration. To forget this is to court despair.

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

  Inspiration, Frustration, Light

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1950). “The Art of Scientific Investigation”

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