Court Quotes - Page 40

• When I'm on the court, I'm a follower.

  Howard Bach

  Followers

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• The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

  C. S. Lewis

  Couple, Husband, Book

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called "state security" in a throwback to both apartheid and the ANC's old Stalinist past), police and communications are all die-hard Zuma loyalists. Whatever their line functions, they will also play the role they have played so ably to date: keeping Zuma out of court - and making sure the state serves Zuma as it once did Mbeki.

  Mark Gevisser

  Communication, Past, Play

  "Can Zuma hold a nation together?" by Mark Gevisser, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2009.

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• It's a very insular political community up there. I think the court's part of that and they're protecting their own. There's no justice in Vermont today.

  Tom Fitton

  Thinking, Justice, Community

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• Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Night, Generosity, Sorrow

  Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”

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• The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves.

  Jo Durie

  Personality, British, Britons

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• I look forward to continuing to be a role model to women across the country and helping them have confidence in all they do in the ring, on the court or in the game of life!

  Marlen Esparza

  Country, Games, Role Models

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• Because you can't change results - I would change my losses, and I would definitely like to see on-court coaching.

  Brad Gilbert

  Loss, Coaching, Results

  Interview with Nima Naderi, tennisconnected.com. April 8, 2010.

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• I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.

  Brad Gilbert

  Jobs, Tennis, Good Job

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• Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.

  Sophie Thompson

  Beautiful, Thinking, Theatre

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• To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll that escaped from a fire.

  Peter Jackson

  Fire, Wife, Botox

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• The progress of science in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wire tapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer' was said by James Otis of much lesser intrusions than these.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Home, Government, Secret

  "Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438". Dissenting opinion, 1928.

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• The adoration of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament is the end of the Church Militant, just as adoration of God in His glory is the end of the Church Triumphant. A holy rivalry, a concert of prayer, a harmony of divine service should exist between the heavenly court and the Eucharistic court here below, between the adorer and his mother the Church.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Mother, Jesus, Prayer

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• Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts,
  How sang the angelic choir that day,
  When from his tomb the imprisoned God,
  Like the strong sunrise, broke away?

  Frederick William Faber

  Easter, Strong, Heaven

  Frederick William Faber (1875). “Hymns”, p.88

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• Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They must constantly demonstrate to courts and legislatures alike the tragic results of legal nonintervention. They must highlight how legal doctrines no longer bear any relation to reality, whether in landlord and tenant law, holder in due course law, or any other law. In sum, lawyers must bring real morality into the legal consciousness

  William J. Brennan

  Real, Law, People

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• A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.

  Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre

  War, Frustration, Men

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• Few people are aware of the severe human rights violations committed daily by family court judges across the country. These courts are siding over and over again with proven sexual abusers of children and batterers of women. I wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't done so much investigating.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Country, Children, Believe

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• JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kings, Utterance, Amusement

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• I think that it's important for judges to understand that if a woman is out there trying to raise a family, trying to support her family, and is being treated unfairly, then the court has to stand up, if nobody else will. And that's the kind of judge that I want.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Judging, Support

  "McCain, Obama go head to head in last debate". edition.cnn.com. October 15, 2008.

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• I believe strongly that we should have nominees to the United States Supreme Court based on their qualifications rather than any litmus test.

  John McCain

  Believe, Should Have, Tests

  John McCain at The Third Presidential Candidates Debate at Hofstra University at Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2008.

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• He who begs timidly courts a refusal.

  Seneca the Younger

  Refusal, Beggar, Beggary

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 64-65, Hippolytus, II. 593, 1922.

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• Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Real, Mean

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• TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Taken, Home, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2526, Delphi Classics

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• I play better tennis because the court is there.

  Robert Frost

  Play, Tennis

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• Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.

  Robert Burns

  Sweet, Larks, Complaining

  Robert Burns (2010). “The Canongate Burns”, p.860, Canongate Books

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