Lawyer Quotes - Page 18

• Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Discipline, Training, Professional Training

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• I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

  Richard Ingrams

  Power, Law, Casinos

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• She seemed to mean what she said. She said pretty much this: I retained some lawyers, I have to move on with my life, I am divorcing you, and then she added, I need money.

  Dennis Kozlowski

  Moving, Mean, Needs

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• To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route.

  John Glenn

  Running, Names, Space

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• A Seattle lawyer once interrupted his lengthy cross-examination of a witness and exclaimed, "Your Honor, one of the jurors is asleep." "You put him to sleep," replied the judge. "Suppose you wake him up."

  James Keller

  Sleep, Judging, Honor

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• And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

  Luke the Evangelist

  Jesus, Men, Woe Unto

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• In regards to Oral Roberts' claim that God told him that he would die unless he received $20 million by March, God's lawyers have stated that their client has not spoken with Roberts for several years. Off the record, God has stated that 'if I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago.

  Dennis Miller

  Years, Ice, Long

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• It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.

  John Grisham

  Teaching, Games, Play

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• This bill would allow an employee to bring a claim against an employer decades after the alleged initial act of discrimination occurred. Trial lawyers, you can be sure, are salivating at this very prospect.

  Buck McKeon

  Trials, Bills, Discrimination

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• The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.

  Orrin Hatch

  Trials, Pay, Discrimination

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• Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Justice, Court, Members

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• If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Running, Wind

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.159, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.

  James Huneker

  Sweat

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• He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Brother, Mind, Devil

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.88

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• "Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Judging, Chosen, Delinquents

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• "Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.

  George Crabbe

  Dark, Law, Mind

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• They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.

  Lee Iacocca

  Wrestler

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• The good of the people is the greatest law.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Law, People

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• I told you all lawyers are worthless. After all it takes won (sic) to know one.

  Dan Quayle

  Knows, Worthless

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• "Lawyers Are": Perilous mouths.

  William Shakespeare

  Mouths

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• "Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

  Jonathan Swift

  Lying, Law, Ability

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• But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker... It would stop the radical environmental lawyers from delaying for years with frivolous lawsuits the leasing of the property.

  Jim DeMint

  Moving, Years, Environmental

  "Senator Jim DeMint on Offshore Drilling". "Your World With Neil Cavuto", www.foxnews.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I love these members, they get up and say, 'Read the bill ... What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?'

  John Conyers

  Stupid, Reading, Mean

  "Reasonable Questions for an Unreasonable Time". "A New Republic: America's Future" with Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. August 24, 2009.

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• Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Men, Nbc

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• No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

  Hannah Arendt

  Life, Law, Civilization

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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