Lawyer Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

  William E. Gladstone

  Law, Easier, Harder

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• Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

  Charles Dickens

  Death, Fire, Law

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.].”, p.38

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• Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.

  Walter Bagehot

  Time, Wind, Law

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.175, Lulu.com

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• There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Powerful, Passion, Law

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• Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Law, Eggs, Perfection

  Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1734

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• I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.

  Marian McPartland

  Birthday, Party, Years

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• To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Passion, Black, One Day

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• Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Funny, War, Humor

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• I'll never be that trusting again, believing accountants and lawyers have my best interests at heart.

  Irene Cara

  Believe, Heart, Interest

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• The day was dark as a lawyer's soul.

  Stuart MacBride

  Dark, Soul

  "Cold Granite". Book by Stuart MacBride, 2005.

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• It is a reality that we have complete control of organised Christianity. Almost anywhere, completely. We 'Jews' must become lawyers so we could control and strangle the courts, we should become teachers and leaders in all the churches.

  Harold Wallace Rosenthal

  Teacher, Reality, Leader

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• If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers ... if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Men, Special, Trials

  "Calif. Gov not sorry for 'girlie men' remark". www.nbcnews.com. July 19, 2004.

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• I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

  Anne Parillaud

  Motivation, Careers, Roles

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• Ive always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. Hes retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

  Scott Bakula

  Brother, Dad, Affinity

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• I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could play an art critic-I could play the guy next door. I am the guy next door. I could play Catholic, Jewish, Protestant. As a matter of fact, when I did The Odd Couple, I would do it a different way each night. On Monday I'd be Jewish, Tuesday Italian, Wednesday Irish-German-and I would mix them up. I did that to amuse myself, and it always worked.

  Walter Matthau

  Monday, Art, Couple

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• But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

  Charles Dickens

  Law, Mere

  "Bleak House".

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• I am God and my lawyers are my 12 disciples...do not f**k with me!

  Courtney Love

  Disciple

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• As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

  Ralph Nader

  Injustice, Empty, Interest

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• I am being embezzled from by this monstrous ring of accountants and estate planners and lawyers, who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.

  Randy Quaid

  Believe, Order, Careers

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• Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Past, Years, Hollywood

  Jean Luc Godard, David Sterritt (1998). “Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews”, p.177, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television

  Chi McBride

  Teacher, Thinking, Doctors

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• I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

  Jared Harris

  Parent, Would Be, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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