Lawyer Quotes - Page 32

• I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.

  Grantland Rice

  Practice, Rooms, Hours

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• Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!

  Marie Dressler

  Able, Wells, Knows

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• Lawyers from the NSA, as well as the UK's GCHQ, work very hard to search for loopholes in laws and constitutional protections that they can use to justify indiscriminate, dragnet surveillance operations that were at best unwittingly authorized by lawmakers.

  Edward Snowden

  Law, Nsa, Use

  "Snowden: NSA pressured EU into creating ‘European bazaar’ of spy networks". www.rt.com. March 7, 2014.

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• As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Facts, Emotion, Speak

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation. I've got friends who are surfers, doctors, lawyers, artists and entertainers. Some people are cool and some people are geeky. I look around at my friends and I think, only the gospel has the power to put together a friendship like this.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Artist, Thinking, Doctors

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

  Margaret Deland

  Cake, People, Cooking

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• I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

  Margaret Deland

  Men, Judging, Might

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.163, The Floating Press

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• my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and it's something that is beyond questioning, which I think is totally absurd. I have several versions of how we met and how wonderful he was and all that. At least twenty. And I'm sure that they are all true. He has one. And I'm positive that it's not true.

  Isabel Allende

  Truth, Husband, Thinking

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• I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Excellence, Length, Bores

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• Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Hands, Want

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “The Circular Staircase/The Man in Lower Ten”, p.229, Essential Library

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• Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.

  Julian Fellowes

  Doubt, Share, Verdict

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• Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

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• For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and wherever it is important for truth-seeking purposes to know what is being talked about and the context gives no intimation whether 'man' means just a human being irrespective of sex or means a masculine being and none other.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Sex, Mean, Men

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• The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist - you can't really help it when you have feelings for someone.

  Jessica Szohr

  Teacher, Doctors, Liking Someone

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• how many times would a defendant's lawyer enter the courtroom before a session and ask each of the male clerks and paralegals around me, 'Are you the assistant in charge?' while I sat there invisible to him at the head of the table?

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Clerks, Males, Tables

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, Vintage

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• Legal business has, from the beginning of time, been profitable - to those who have conducted it; because it is concerned with things that touch men's passions very deeply, and because men are willing to pay, and pay highly, for wisdom and skill in the conduct of it. The real merits of the Norman lawyers were, not altruism, but ability, energy, and enthusiasm for their work.

  Edward Jenks

  Real, Passion, Men

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• Everybody hates lawyers, but they don't realize judges are just lawyers with a promotion. Think about it.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Hate, Thinking, Judging

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• I don't want to get married ... I'm certainly not going to give up the work I've wanted to do all my life for the sake of it, any more than I'd expect my husband, if he were a doctor or a lawyer, for example, to give up practising medicine or law in order to marry me.

  Gwethalyn Graham

  Marriage, Giving Up, Husband

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• to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Black, Female, Speak

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• Let me tell you something, I didn't become a lawyer because I like the law, the law sucks. It's boring, but it can also be used as a weapon. You want to bankrupt somebody? Cost him everything he's worked for? Make his wife leave him, even make his kids cry...yeah, we can do that.

  Richard Fish

  Kids, Law, Wife

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• At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency, designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions all good things

  Peter Diamandis

  Smart, Thinking, Transition

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• Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

  Harper Lee

  Southern, Novel

  "The Interrogation of ‘Mockingbird’ Author Harper Lee (Guest Blog)". www.thewrap.com. July 16, 2014.

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• I hated being a lawyer and I wanted to like myself and like my job.

  Tucker Max

  Jobs, Hated, Wanted

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If you are accused of being associated with terrorism, which could mean you are an Arab- American and you've sent e-mails to a relative in the Middle East, you should get your day in court, and I think you should get a lawyer and a trial, and I think most Americans agree to that.

  Rand Paul

  Mean, Thinking, Middle East

  "Sen. Rand Paul on top congressional issues; pivotal moment in the battle over gay marriage". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2013.

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• My family is all lawyers. Most people when they come on shows like this, "I'm proud of the first member of my family to get a college education."

  Rush Limbaugh

  College, People, Proud

  "Rush Limbaugh Gives Sean a Rare Interview". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 18, 2005.

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