Best 354 quotes in «lawyer quotes» category

Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!

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

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract.

In 2031, lawyers will be commonly a part of most development teams.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

In general, salary for land surveyors is often similar to that of a professional engineer or lawyer - surveyors are often "comfortable" but not "wealthy.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a woman who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family.

In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.

In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

I really, really, loved being an elected official. But I also love what I'm doing now. I thrive when I can fight for people and I'm doing it now as a lawyer.

I think being called a she-devil by a trial lawyer is meant as a compliment.

Ironically, I come from a family of lawyers - my dad, my grandfather, and now my oldest son. And some of my very best friends are lawyers, though they don't resemble the ones that appear in my novels.

I remember how surprised I was when my first novel was about to be published and I was informed that I could be sued for anything any one of my characters said. 'But I often don't agree with what they say,' I protested. The lawyer was not interested in the clear distinction I make between my own voice and the voices of my characters. Neither, I have found, are many of my readers.

I say, break the law.

I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer.

I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

I've always liked politicians and lawyers. They keep the PR professional's status at least two from the bottom of the ethical food chain.

I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as yourself have. We all need to have those as we make our way through the day. And they're not that hard to acquire.

I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.

It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

I've argued in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. I've argued in almost every circuit. And I tried, as a personal lawyer and U.S. attorney, over 50 cases.

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.

I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.

I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

I was a lawyer and I have been married to a lawyer. I think one lawyer per household is plenty. It's a good quota for us.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

I want our legal system to work better. I want it to be streamlined, I want it to be clearer. I don’t think you have to — shouldn’t have to hire a lawyer to figure out how to get into this country legally.

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.

I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

Laws are inoperative in war

John Kerry described his Republican critics as 'the most crooked, lying group I've ever seen.' Now, that's saying something, because Kerry's both a lawyer and a politician.

Judges,lawyers an politicians have a license to steal.We don't need one.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.

Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.