For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Throughout college and law school, as well as in my career as a lawyer and police reform advocate, I've faced various toxic… — Lori Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer. — Michael Mina Copy Share Image
How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I started off as a young lawyer working against discrimination against African-American children in schools and in the criminal justice system. I… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I have been shaped by the experiences of the people who are closest to me, by the things I've learned from [my… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
To finish first you have to first finish. Don't get in a position where you go back to go. What's interesting is… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.'… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I was spending too much time thinking about how I was doing, if I was learning everything I was supposed to be… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
I surely haven't only dealt with film people. As a lawyer, I also fought against evictions, or worked on leases - the… — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
The Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday announced a two-year suspension for a lawyer found having jailhouse sex with a triple murder… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“You can’t be half-reaper. That’s like saying a postman is half-human and half-postman.” “Or a lawyer is half-demon and half-human?” — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I wanted to be all sorts of things. I went through phases. I wanted to be a doctor, I wanted to be… — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Basically, I come to Washington a couple of times a year, sort of on a strictly business basis: talk to my counterparts… — Margrethe Vestager Copy Share Image
I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through… — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Those who hate lawyers, have either hired the wrong one and lost, represented themselves and lost, or had such a bad case… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
I never had an existential moment when I asked myself what I was going to do. I always wanted to be a… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image