Lawyer Quotes - Page 12

• The theory of objectivism claims that there are certain things that most people in society can agree upon. A model is pretty. A lawyer is smart. Our society is based upon objectivism. It’s how we make rules and why we obey them.

  Portia de Rossi

  Smart, Agree Upon, People

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• I have already told you Father, more than once: I’m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I’m not going to bury myself in some planter’s kitchen, and I’m not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in Ilhéus. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office

  Jorge Amado

  Husband, Father, School

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• You are telling me that your lawyer is a bloodsucking vampire?

  Kevin Hearne

  Vampire

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hounded (with two bonus short stories): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book One”, p.46, Del Rey

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• Has he come armed, then?” she asked anxiously. “Has he brought a pistol or a sword?” Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting wildly in the wind. “Oh, no, Mam!” he said. “It’s worse. He’s brought a lawyer!

  Diana Gabaldon

  Dark, Hair, Wind

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1912, Dell

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• ...Her parents were going to a conference for the weekend. The conference was called "Lawyers are Lovely, Great and Superb: so Why Does Everyone Think that They are Liars, Greedy and Scum?" and Mr Thomson was doing a speech called "Ten Tips to Make Lawyers as Popular as Doctors.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Liars, Weekend, Thinking

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.

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• Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers.

  Ilona Andrews

  Dog, People

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.264, Penguin

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• Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that!

  Ray Bradbury

  Dog, Book, Cat

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• Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.

  Napoleon Hill

  Winning, Law, Think And Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.99, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• [Hazel] hissed in frustration. 'I hate eidolons. I thought Piper made them promise to stay away.' 'Oh...' Frank said, like he'd just had his own daily happy thought. 'Piper made them promise to stay off the ship and not possess any of us. But if they followed us, and used other bodies to attack us, then they're not technically breaking their vow...' 'Great,' Leo muttered. 'Eidolons who are also lawyers. Now I really want to kill them.

  Rick Riordan

  Hate, Frustration, Promise

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• Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of appeal and persuasion accorded to the politician, the preacher, the lawyer, and to every other individual who has a special interest in something, whether a creed or a commodity.

  Raymond Rubicam

  Art, Business, Special

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• Have you ever noticed that the lawyer always smiles more than the client?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• If the cops didn't see it, I didn't do it!

  George Carlin

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.

  Vaclav Havel

  Law, People, Judging

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.

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• If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Believe, Doctors

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• Number one, it is important that we fix the legal immigration system, because right now we've got a backlog that means years for people to apply legally. And what's worse is, we keep on increasing the fees, so that if you've got a hard working immigrant family, they've got to hire a lawyer; they've got to pay thousands of dollars in fees. They just can't afford it. And it's discriminatory against people who have good character, we should want in this country, but don't have the money. So we've got to fix that.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Character, Mean

  Transcript: Democratic debate in Austin, Texas, www.nytimes.com. December 2, 2008.

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• I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

  William Whipple

  Sorry, Apology, Long

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• Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money.

  Peggy Noonan

  Humor, Men, Law

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

  Seneca the Younger

  Law, Doe, May

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

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• Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

  Aristotle

  Passion, Heart, Men

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.112, Aristotle

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• Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Funny, Humor, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Law, Judging, Earth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.241

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• I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.

  John Lyly

  Law, Mind, Deceit

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• Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simple, Law, Unseen

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

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• The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Law, Practice, Mind

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• I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit of the larger purpose, realizing the rule of law. ... This is not to deny that the will to win drives those efforts. ... Rather, it is simply to insist that ultimately, neither the accused nor society is served unless the integrity of the system is set above the expedient purposes of either side.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Integrity, Winning, Views

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