Lawyer Quotes - Page 34

• I think with every successful consumer Internet business, there will be lawyers that are interested in going after your company, especially when they think that there's a financial incentive.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Successful, Thinking, Incentives

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• The Bible says we are to be salt and light. And salt and light means not just in the church and not just as a teacher or as a pastor or a banker or a lawyer, but in government and we have to have elected officials in government and we have to have the faithful in government and over time, that lie we have been told, the separation of church and state, people have internalized, thinking that they needed to avoid politics and that is so wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers.

  Katherine Harris

  Teacher, Lying, Mean

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• American government is not dominated by engineers, it is dominated by lawyers. Engineers are interested in substance and building things; lawyers are interested in process and rights and getting the ideology correctly blended. And so there is sort of no really concrete plan for the future.

  Peter Thiel

  Rights, Government, Building Things

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If you have a lawyer, sometimes you can get out of trouble. I've gotten into a lot of trouble because I didn't have a lawyer. I've also had some bad lawyers, too. But the good ones, the ones I liked, they became me. They became whatever situation I was involved in. When I felt pain, so did they. When I succeeded, so did they. They became me. They became whatever the situation was that they became involved with.

  Mike Tyson

  Pain, Sometimes, Trouble

  "Mike Tyson: 'You Have To Feel Comfortable Being Uncomfortable'". Interview with David J. Parnell, www.forbes.com. November 18, 2014.

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  Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers and businessmen massage wealth; they don't create it.

  Michio Kaku

  Listening, Massage, Wealth

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 9, 2009.

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• The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Believe, Denial, World

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• Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Doctors, Pot, Quarrels

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.277, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Honor, Vivid

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.46, Fordham Univ Press

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• The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Justice, Important, Done

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.44, Penguin

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• I am not an accomplished lawyer.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Accomplished

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.82, University Press of Kentucky

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• The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards of justice and of right dealing.... By justice the lawyer generally means the prompt, fair, and open application of impartial rules; but we call ours a Christian civilization, and a Christian conception of justice must be much higher. It must include sympathy and helpfulness and a willingness to forego self-interest in order to promote the welfare, happiness, and contentment of others and of the community as a whole.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Christian, Mean, Men

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• The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Age, Lasts, United States

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• Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Wall, Ties

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• Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.

  Charles Dickens

  Party, Mean, Men

  Bleak House ch. 1 (1853)

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• Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

  Charles Dickens

  Games, Two, Cases

  Pickwick Papers ch. 20 (1837)

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• A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Justice, Judging

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785) (entry for 15 Aug. 1773)

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• Most attorneys practice law because it gives them a grand and glorious feeling. You give them a grand - and they feel glorious.

  Milton Berle

  Law, Practice, Giving

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• Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all ... you know, they become lawyers.

  Woody Allen

  Sex, Men, Thinking

  Love and Death (motion picture) (1975)

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• Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.

  Bill Veeck

  Two, Next, Batteries

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• Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.

  Cullen Hightower

  Democracy, Enough, Nations

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• Federal authorities have informed Martha Stewart's lawyers she will be indicted for her role in the ImClone insider trading scandal. Good news for Martha - stripes are back in this year.

  Craig Kilborn

  Years, Stripes, Roles

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• In Afghanistan, U.S. troops are now holding an American man who has been fighting alongside the Taliban. His mother says he was born in Washington, D.C. and his father's a lawyer. Well, that explains it. ... He surrendered to authorities and said he wants to go back to his old job - airline security guard.

  Jay Leno

  Mother, Jobs, Father

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• Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues.

  Mason Cooley

  Power, Law, Issues

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• Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.

  Mason Cooley

  Mars, Venus, Detectives

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• Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.

  Frederick Reines

  Brother, Educational, Book

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