"Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication."

-- John Mortimer

#Justice Quotes #Judging Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“We know to much to command ourselves very far.”
“Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a ***** cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons”
“All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.”

Source : "Carl Bernstein: Is Phone-Hacking Scandal Murdoch's Watergate?". www.newsweek.com. July 9, 2011.
“Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.”
“Some high society lady said is your horse outside? No ma'am, he's between my legs, but your too fat to ride.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.”
“We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.”

Source : Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons
“Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.”

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