Lawyer Quotes - Page 26

• If your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately.

  Richard Ingrams

  Settling, Should, Cases

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• Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don't be upset when others decide you're an asshole.

  Jim C. Hines

  Religious, Law, Upset

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• Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples.

  Vaughn Walker

  Sex, Couple, Gay

  "Opponents of same-sex marriage to file appeal in California case". www.cnn.com. August 5, 2010.

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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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• Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and-most unforgivably-increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Law, Justice, Risk

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• What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.

  Claire Trevor

  Divorce, People, Pay

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

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• A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

  Marguerite Young

  Wedding, Ghouls, Gowns

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• The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Funny, Humor, Law

  Oliver Goldsmith (1794). “The Citizen of the World Or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friend in the East”, p.33

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• Most libels, and I have taken about 30 actions, take place at election time. It has not stuck because I am prepared to go before a court, stand in the witness box and face the most aggressive of lawyers who can cross-examine me on my personal history.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Taken, Faces, Election Time

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• Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

  Richard Barnfield

  Queens, Fighting, Soldier

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• I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

  Sonny Bono

  Should Have, Language, Used

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• Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

  Phillip Lim

  Successful, Doctors, Parent

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• The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

  Chauncey Depew

  Government, America, United States

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910). “Banquet and dinner speeches”

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

  Maynard James Keenan

  Liars, Mirrors, Differences

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• I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.

  Owen Wister

  Men, Doctors, Bishops

  Owen Wister (2012). “The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• I'm really not one to brag, but I think my job is one of the most important things someone can do with their life. I mean, it really gives people a chance to live outside their means through someone else's vision. And I think that's something really great that I can give back to the community. Sure I could be a doctor or a lawyer, but do they really help anyone? Sure you can save someone's life, but can you really change it for the better? I'm not saying their jobs aren't important, just not as important as mine.

  Zach Braff

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

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• Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.

  Gino Bartali

  Men, Purpose, Stories

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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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• We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing.

  Roger Mahony

  Healing, Community, Catholic

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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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• The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.

  Shepard Fairey

  Mean, People, Bully

  Interview by Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• There must be some point, at which the lawyer's own personal and social morality will rebel against his traditional allegiance to his client.

  Harry Jones

  Character, Clients, Rebel

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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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• 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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• 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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