Court famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.
-- Adam Haslett -
Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.
-- Alain Robert -
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
-- Anne Hutchinson -
The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically.
-- Ari Fleischer -
If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
-- Arthur Ashe -
Court... a place where they dispense with justice.
-- Arthur Cheney Train -
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
-- Ben Jonson -
If we want to save some money, let's just get rid of the court.
-- Bobby Jindal -
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
-- Brendan Behan -
It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.
-- Cecile Richards -
And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.
-- Cecile Richards -
There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.
-- Charles Bradlaugh -
I'm quite sure that no court is telling anybody that they cannot say whatever they want to say.
-- Chris Christie -
Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.
-- Christopher Buckley -
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
-- Clarence Darrow -
Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.
-- Dashiell Hammett -
But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.
-- David Dinkins -
I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.
-- Debra Messing -
I have judged myself more harshly than any court ever could.
-- Dennis Nilsen -
It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.
-- Dominika Cibulkova -
In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked
-- Donella Meadows -
Before even Court Grip, I just wanted to be a part of a brand that I felt that listened to the athlete and really catered to the athlete, and gave us what we were looking for.
-- Dwyane Wade -
If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.
-- Eleanor Holmes Norton -
One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.
-- Felix Frankfurter -
An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
-- Finley Peter Dunne -
The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
-- Gabriela Sabatini -
When I lose a match, I know that I lose on the court and not in life.
-- Gabriela Sabatini -
I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court.'
-- Gough Whitlam -
People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
-- Harold H. Greene -
If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
-- Harold Pinter -
Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.
-- Horace -
To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.
-- Horace -
Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.
-- Horace -
I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.
-- Jack Kevorkian -
I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
-- James Dyson -
I have a pretty good record of winning in court.
-- Jan Brewer -
Some of the angles that photographers get on court are not always flattering.
-- Jelena Jankovic -
People are moved by my story, but they're only moved by my story because of what I do on the court.
-- Jeremy Lin -
You never really know a woman till you meet her in court.
-- Jerry Lawler -
Well my question is if the federal courts don't have jurisdiction over a constitutional question then who the hell does?
-- Jesse Ventura -
Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?" The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked here at court." "And why is that?" "Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.
-- Jim Butcher -
The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.
-- Jim Courier -
I'm known in the trade as Litigiousness because, which means to say I'm willing to pull people into court straight away, no messing, thank you.
-- Jimmy Savile -
The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves.
-- Jo Durie -
I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.
-- John Ashcroft -
My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?
-- John Constable -
Take the words of Jesus and let them become the Supreme Court of the Gospel to you.
-- John G. Lake -
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.
-- Joseph Story -
The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch -
The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.
-- Joy Fielding -
That got thrown out of court are what got me thrown out of school.
-- Justin Long -
The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
-- Lamar S. Smith -
When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
-- Larry Bird -
I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
-- Larry Bird -
The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.
-- LeBron James -
I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.
-- LeBron James -
It is not the practice, now will I allow subversives to get away by insisting that I’ve got to prove everything against them in a court of law or [produce] evidence that will stand up to the strict rules of evidence of a court of law.
-- Lee Kuan Yew -
I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.
-- Lleyton Hewitt -
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
-- Malcolm De Chazal -
If I'm on the court, I have to do what I do best and that's try to go hard to the basket.
-- Manu Ginobili -
Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.
-- Marat Safin -
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.
-- Mario Savio -
Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court.
-- Mark Lawrence -
My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.
-- Marv Albert -
My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the outside too
-- Mary Pierce -
It was the only way he knew to protect the court, the faery, and the only mortal who'd ever mattered to him.
-- Melissa Marr -
Being afraid on the court, means you're not confident of your skills
-- Michael Jordan -
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.
-- Michael Jordan -
Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended Americas inalienable right to life, it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.
-- Michael Moriarty -
The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.
-- Mike Rounds -
If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
-- Morris Raphael Cohen -
I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.
-- Nellie Bly -
When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.
-- Newt Gingrich -
Whether you're in bed or in court, everybody gets off.
-- Nicole Blackman -
I didnt know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.
-- Nina Totenberg -
I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.
-- Norma McCorvey -
I am fast and very powerful on the court, so this is what matters.
-- Novak Djokovic -
This is a court of law, not a court of justice.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Just fundamental things - I played guard and I played forward, so you get into a position where you are pivoting out on the court.
-- Oscar Robertson -
It is nice to walk out on a court to have it packed.
-- Pete Sampras -
I hope Barack Obama puts another woman on the Supreme Court. And this time, I hope it's a woman with kids.
-- Peter Beinart -
Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.
-- Phil Donahue -
Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.
-- Pope Francis -
Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!
-- Rachel Hartman -
The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.
-- Ralph Neas
