Lawyer Quotes - Page 39

• Love has no place in a lawyer's office.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Office

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• Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable.

  Rachel Hartman

  Believe, Men, Wrinkles

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• If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?

  Calvin Trillin

  Funny, School, Humor

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• For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple of years younger than Ellis; indeed, for reasons too complicated to explain here, I was nearly drafted into the US army in 1965. I know many Americans of my own age and, as much to the point, my own class - journalists, publishers, lawyers. And I don't think I know one who served in Vietnam.

  Geoffrey Wheatcroft

  Couple, Army, Thinking

  "Not so macho" by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2001.

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• I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I dont know why.

  Louis Garrel

  Jobs, Wanted, Knows

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• Apparently it was unethical for lawyers to sleep with their clients. This from a man who offered legal representation to assassins.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Sleep, Men, Assassins

  Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• Im a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

  Keith Rothfus

  Focus, Type, Software

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• Ive been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange when I was 18 years old. Im not a Wall Street lawyer, Im a Stanwix Street lawyer. Stanwix Street is a street in downtown Pittsburgh.

  Keith Rothfus

  Wall, Years, Tourists

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• They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]

  Martial

  Passion, Eloquence, Referring

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• When asked to borrow money: "I'll see what my lawyer says. . . . And if he says yes, I'll get another lawyer.

  W. C. Fields

  Money, Ifs

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• [On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.

  Ouida

  Lying, Hypocrisy, Religion

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.

  Peter Sotos

  Book, Pay, Too Much

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• Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Example, Today, Attacking

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• Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

  Criss Jami

  Leadership, Liars, Lying

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.45, Criss Jami

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• The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

  Criss Jami

  Country, Ignorance, Inmates

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.96, Criss Jami

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• Any idiot would know women's needs are simple. All we want is your basic millionaire brain surgeon criminal lawyer great dancer who pilots his own Lear Jet and owns seafront property. On the other hand, things being what they are today, most of us will settle for a guy who holds down a steady job and isn't carrying an infectious disease.

  Linda Sunshine

  Jobs, Women, Simple

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• My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

  Gabriel Macht

  Brother, Doctors, Parent

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

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• My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Smart, Character

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• Priscilla and I, and nine others, had been charged with
  'disturbing the peace,' among other charges, because we tried to order food at Woolworth. If not for segregation, and the fact that we were all Negroes, we would have been served without incident. At our trial on March 17, 1960,
  Judge John Rudd ruled that our lawyers should
  'get off that race question.'

  Patricia Stephens Due

  Race, Order, Judging

  Tananarive Due, Patricia Stephens Due (2003). “Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights”, One World/Ballantine

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• Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Girlfriend, School, Boys

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• A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the papers in his hands, and the attorney goes into the public records and finds everything right for three or four years back; but after a time he comes to a break in the title. So he finds that the man who supposed he owned it owns not an acre of the ground which belongs to someone else. I trace the title of this world from century to century until I find the whole right vested in God. Now to whom did he give it? To his own children. All are yours.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Children, Men, Thinking

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• Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

  Dick Cavett

  Hard Work, Humans, Hard

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.33, Macmillan

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• One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer and the next minute I was in parliament.

  David Lang

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• I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Father, Coffee, Iowa

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• If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, World, Want

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.160, Vintage

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