Best 362 quotes in «court quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 late justice is a lame justice.

And what hypocrisy it is on the part of our Government to have the Bible in our courts of law for the culprit to take his oath upon and then be tried for the very crimes which the Bible itself sanctions.

Besides, just because they wore frills and makeup didn't mean they weren't dangerous[...]

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

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.

You can't teach court savvy

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.

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 Bush and Gore headed to the Supreme Court. You've got George W. Bush's intelligence will be pitted against Al Gore's honesty. This is more like a case for small claims court.

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

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

All I wanted to do was hide away from the world, but I still had a role to play. I had to be 'Girl A' - the key witness in the trial that finally saw my abusers locked up. Girl A - the girl in the newspaper stories who had been through the most hideous experience imaginable. When I read those stories, I felt like I was reading about somebody else, another girl who was subjected to the depths of human depravity. But it wasn't. It was about me. I am Girl A.

Captain, you have heard the charges. How do you plead? Before you answer, you should know that if you plead "guilty" you'll be immediately extradited and U.N.S. law will take over." "Not guilty." "Also, it's not very nice to lie in court." "But it beats extradition.

Clarence Darrow, one of history's greatest lawyers, once noted "There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court." Perhaps because justice is a flawed concept that ultimately comes down to the decision of twelve people. People with their own experiences, prejudices, feelings about what defines right and wrong. Which is why, when the system fails us, we must go out and seek our own justice.

For, change was and is the only constant in life.

Everything in life has a yin and yang – an interconnected, complementary and opposite force. Just as we need the light to distinguish it from the dark, we recognize injustice in the world demands justice to provide a balance.

Evidence will terminate any short or long era of an argument.

For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night in darkened rooms where small children sleep. However, surely not in academia. Surely lying and deception do not occur among people who go to conferences, who write books, who testify in court, and who have PhDs. At one point I complained to a Florida judge that I was astonished to an expert witness lying on the stand [about child sexual abuse research]. I thought one had to tell the truth in court. I thought if someone didn't, she didn't get her milk and cookies. I thought God came down and plucked someone right out of the witness stand if he lied in court. I thought a lying expert witness would step out of court and get hit by a bus. A wiser woman than I, the judge's answer was, “Silly you." Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Learned Author: Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998

Even though he had admitted to her that he used to watch me shower through a hole in the bathroom wall back when I was thirteen. She blamed us both for what we had "done" to her. But it sounds like she got over being mad at him pretty quick. She later told me that she had to go back and have sex with him one more time, just to make sure that there was nothing left between the two of them and to get some closure. That almost made me want to vomit. The only interaction between us after that was her showing up at the courthouse when I had to sit in front of a grand jury of twelve strangers and tell them what had happened. She came into the waiting room where I was sitting and started screaming that I was a whore and that I'd fucked her husband. She had to be escorted out of the court by two officers. That's what I got from her.