Lawyer Quotes - Page 24

• Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference?

  Maynard James Keenan

  Liars, Mirrors, Differences

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• ... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, Law, Driven

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• Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Abuse, Bars, May

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• I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.

  Janet Reno

  Caring, Feet, Support

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• As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

  Jay Sekulow

  Feet, Bills, Hours

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• I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

  Jay Sekulow

  Feet, Pay, Wells

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• In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.

  Carolyn R. Dimmick

  Feminist, Together, Organized

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• In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.

  Lauren Hutton

  World, Firsts, Contracts

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• When it comes to giving advice, never do so unless you've first received a request in writing, signed by a lawyer.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Writing, Giving

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• So the good news is, if you're unemployed and you go to apply for a job and you're not hired for that job, see a lawyer - you may be able to file for a claim because you were discriminated against because you were unemployed.

  Louie Gohmert

  Jobs, News, May

  "Republican Louie Gohmert Blasts American Jobs Act For Banning Unemployment Discrimination" by Tyler Kingkade, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2011.

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• Make sure your family and loved ones don’t interrupt you during your
  writing time. If you’re a lawyer or doctor, friends don’t just stop by the office to chat or interrupt you from your work. But for some reason, people think writing is different. It isn’t, and you need to make clear that this is sacred time.

  Douglas Preston

  Writing, Thinking, Doctors

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• Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in shaping British democracy than most constitutional lawyers, political commentators, historians or statesmen have ever cared to admit. Direct action in a democratic society is fundamentally an educational exercise.

  Tony Benn

  Educational, Exercise, Direct Action

  "New Politics" Magazine, 1970.

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• Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Two, Body

  "Callanan v. United States, 364 U.S. 587". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. January 9, 1961.

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• The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not correct. People with problems, like people with pains, want relief, and they want it as quickly and inexpensively as possible.

  Warren E. Burger

  Pain, Judging, People

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• While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

  George Ryan

  Years, Office, Training

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• As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Commitment, Able, Incarceration

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• Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.

  Smokey Robinson

  Teenager, School, Doctors

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• In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Ambition, Mind, Fiction

  Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843). “The Works”, p.199

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• My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.

  John Conyers

  Kings, Husband, Rights

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• No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie of knowledge; he must be both speculative & active, for the science of the laws, I assure you, must joyne hands with experience.

  Edward Coke

  Men, Hands, Law

  Sir Edward Coke (2003). “The Selected Writings and Speeches of Sir Edward Coke”

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• I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

  Shana Alexander

  Believe, Men, Enemy

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• Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson

  Morris Dees

  Rights, Years, Rays

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• Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.

  Chris Gardner

  Want, Passionate, Painting

  "Survival Guide". Interview with William Welsh, washingtontechnology.com. October 19, 2006.

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• Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, 'what a navigator I am!' And then the wind blows you east.

  Katherine Boo

  Children, Blow, Vanity

  Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.16, Portobello Books

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• To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in retrospect, that there was much to be said for their suggestion. On the other hand, many philosophers are quite good company; the arguments they use are generally better than the ones that lawyers use; and we do get to go to as many faculty meetings as we like at no extra charge.

  Jerry Fodor

  Hands, Parent, Retrospect

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