Best 362 quotes in «court quotes» category

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

The trick to defending Kentucky's home court is....better defending

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

The tedious and convoluted reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ongoing project to expunge all references to God from the public domain.

They've come to overthrow the court, sir!

This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.

This country is always changing. But my point about the Supreme Court is the Supreme Court didn't wait for the country to change. Five unelected lawyers overruled 320 million Americans.

Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.

To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

To think well is to serve God in the interior court.

Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood

The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism.

We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't.

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

We depend on the Supreme Court to uphold the integrity of our government.

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

We got the Supreme Court, we pressured the Supreme Court into supporting women's rights to choose.

We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)

We're talking too much about what goes on in the stands, nothing about what goes on on the court.

Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.

Well my question is if the federal courts don't have jurisdiction over a constitutional question then who the hell does?

What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on the part of gendarmes, hangmen and penal courts, it is self interest.

What's going to make me happy is going on the court and holding up trophies, singles and doubles.

When I lose a match, I know that I lose on the court and not in life.

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

When I step onto the court, I'm ready to play. If you're going up against me, you'd better be ready. If you're not going to compete, I will dominate you.

When I'm on the court, I'm a follower.

When I warm up now though—especially on center court—there is usually music playing, so I don't really mess with music.

When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.

When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.

When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.

When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.

Whether D.C. residents will be full-fledged citizens seems to be a case worthy of the Supreme Court.

Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court.

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.

Women administer the home. They set the rules, enforce them, mete out justice for violations. Thus, like Congress, they legislate; like the Executive, they administer; like the courts, they interpret the rules. It is an ideal experience for politics.

You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.

Whether you're in bed or in court, everybody gets off.

You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.

You never really know a woman till you meet her in court.

You've got to have fun on the court. If you ain't having fun, then basketball ain't fun.

You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.

8. The Cat Who Lived in the Palace The cat who lived in the Palace had been awarded the head-dress of nobility and was called Lady Myobu.

A court is the most depressing place on earth. Wherever there is a throne, one may observe in rich detail every folly and wickedness of which man is capable, enameled with manners and gilded with hypocrisy.

A jury verdict is just a guess - a well-intentioned guess, generally, but you simply cannot tell fact from fiction by taking a vote.

A late justice is a lame justice.

You can't teach court savvy