Lawyer Quotes - Page 29

• Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer, but you will be thinking innovation and your actions within society, who you vote for, what you value, all become a participant in an innovation economy.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Technology, Thinking, Innovation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As people, we have forgotten to be people. We know how to be doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, we know what to do, we know what to buy, but how do I just sit with you in your pain? How do I sit with you in your vulnerability and not betray you, not abuse you? We do not know how to do that, even in our homes.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Teacher, Pain, Home

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I like my politicians and my judges and my lawyers to be simple. I think if you worry about where your hemline is you're really not concentrating on the world crisis.

  Joan Rivers

  Thinking, Simple, Worry

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You have to be bold because there will be folks who will say, "You can't" or "You shouldn't" or "Why?" There is a certain boldness to saying, "Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting."

  Chris Gardner

  Courage, Passionate, Want

  "Chris Gardner Survival Guide: extended interview". Interview with William Welsh, washingtontechnology.com. October 19, 2006.

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• When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who were always perfect as doctors or lawyers or laborers, and the directors just picked the types they needed and stuffed them into film after film. I do the same [with
  my characters], book after book.

  Richard Condon

  Book, Character, Doctors

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• Being a famous singer or an international singer - that's my dream, too, but my main goal is to be a real student and be able to graduate and be a lawyer and have my own business.

  Charice Pempengco

  Dream, Real, Goal

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• The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

  Nicholas Johnson

  Problem, Congressman

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• Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

  James Huneker

  Sweat, Bread, Anti Semitic

  James Huneker (1920). “Painted Veils”

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• Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Ideas, Detectives

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.201, Рипол Классик

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• Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

  Stephen King

  Fleas, Human Nature, Humans

  Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Commerce, Jackals

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think of the damage they would do if they were at the job instead, you can see why golf courses are a wise investment for any municipality.

  Garrison Keillor

  Wise, Jobs, Lying

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• I don't know who the great lawyers are, and I presume you can't get to them. I know of no case where it can be said for certain that they took part. They defend some people, but you can't get them to do that through your own efforts, they only defend the ones they want to defend. But I assume a case they take on must have progressed beyond the lower court. It's better not to think of them at all, otherwise you'll find the consultations with the other lawyers, their advice and their assistance, extremely disgusting and useless.

  Franz Kafka

  Thinking, People, Effort

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• Why are scientists now using lawyers in laboratory experiments instead of rats? Three reasons: (1) lawyers are more plentiful than rats, (2) there is no danger the scientists will become attached to the lawyers, and (3) there are some things rats just won't do.

  Gerry Spence

  Three, Rats, Reason

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• There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.

  Gerry Spence

  Passion, Writing, Heart

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives--professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems.

  Barack Obama

  Winning, People, Political

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.48, Canongate Books

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• How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Wonder, Priests, Adore

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• The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Office, Corporations, Delicate

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• I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.

  John Stossel

  Jobs, Believe, Government

  The Oregonian, October 26, 1994.

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• My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my dear lord, it is their interest that aw mankind should be at variance; for disagreement is the vary manure wi' which they enrich and fatten the land of leetigation; and as they find that constantly produces the best crop, depend upon it they will always be sure till lay it on ass thick ass they can.

  Charles Macklin

  Animal, Land, Dear Lord

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• The Lawyers' trade is a trade built entirely on words. And so long as the lawyers carefully keep to themselves the key to what those words mean, the only way the average man can find out what is going on is to become a lawyer, or at least to study law, himself. All of which makes it very nice -- and very secure -- for the lawyers.

  Fred Rodell

  Nice, Mean, Men

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• In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For every age, a group of bright boys, learned in their trades and jealous of their learning, who blend technical competence with plain and fancy hocus-pocus to make themselves masters of their fellow men. For every age, a pseudo-intellectual autocracy, guarding the tricks of the trade from the uninitiated, and running, after its own pattern, the civilization of its day.

  Fred Rodell

  Running, Jealous, Men

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• The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.

  Fred Rodell

  Law, Squad, Lines

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• Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve.

  Thane Rosenbaum

  Law, Moral Development, Order

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• Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer.

  Lani Guinier

  Inspirational, Knowing, People

  Lani Guinier, Michelle Fine, Jane Balin (1997). “Becoming gentlemen: women, law school, and institutional change”, Beacon Pr

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