"Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept"

-- Robert Bork

#Fashion Quotes #Wind Quotes #Law Quotes

“Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.”
“Scientists are like atomic nuclei. They are more easily split than fused....”
“Quit worrying about what other people think and just be who God made you to be. If you will run your race, God will take care of your critics.”
“My handicap? Woods and irons.”
“Since the journey is a metaphor - the most ambiguous and seductive of metaphors, we tell ourselves - it can also be born of immobility. There is no need to drag our bodies around so much, all dressed up. It's hot, there are flies, diseases. It is enough to close our eyes, seated on a chair in the shade, to float on the waves of imagination. Isn't that what books are there for?”

Source : Dacia Maraini, Dick Kitto, Elspeth Spottiswood (1999). “The Silent Duchess”, p.258, Feminist Press at CUNY
“A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.”

Source : Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.33, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“Sounds like you've got it all planned out." "Honey, I've got more plans than Wes has ugly shoes." "And that's a lot." I laugh. "It sure is," she says with a sigh.”
“The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.”

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