Lawyer Quotes · Page 20

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

— Hart Pomerantz

The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.

— Anthony Kennedy

Startups are constantly raising money, sometimes before they have even hired a lawyer.

— Naval Ravikant

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup.

— F. Ross Johnson

As a social justice lawyer, I started marches against Trump here in Detroit.

— Rashida Tlaib

I'm a lawyer, I practiced for many years, and so I believe in the Fifth Amendment.

— Elijah Cummings

Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.

— Laila Robins

Bob asked his lawyer what would happen if he didn't make a will and she said: 'Your wife and children will be…

— Rita Marley

You can get a lawyer with two months off or a New York socialite who wants to play at being Lewis and…

— Jon Krakauer

When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when…

— Tia Mowry

Fighters have a choice to fight for any organization they want. They've got a choice of playing baseball, basketball, football, swinging a…

— Matt Hughes

Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you…

— Danny DeVito

I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives…

— Janet Reno

In many courts, plea bargaining serves the convenience of the judge and the lawyers, not the ends of justice, because the courts…

— Jimmy Carter

Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is right or not, you are…

— Linus Torvalds

On a certain level, we don't try enough cases. We should try more cases before juries and let jurors decide. On grand…

— Lynne Stewart

my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and…

— Isabel Allende

Shortly before my arrest, my girlfriend at the time, who's now my wife of ten years, told me she was quitting drugs…

— Christian Hosoi

For decades, many blacks were reluctant to pursue a profession that was associated with servitude. If you went to school, it was…

— Marcus Samuelsson

The Supreme Court would benefit from the addition of a justice who has real experience as a practicing lawyer. The current justices…

— Harry Reid

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the…

— Marian Wright Edelman

One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I’ve worked in serious…

— Michele Bachmann

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

— Jamie Moyer

A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.

— Sol Stein

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

— Anne Bishop

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.

— Bill Veeck

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

— Jean Giraudoux

The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.

— Orrin Hatch

Im a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

— Keith Rothfus

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Wherever you find human misery, you find lawyers, either causing it or making a profit from it.”

— Anonymous

Rudy has always been a scary character, so there's a place for him on Halloween.

— Ron Kuby

I wanted to be a writer, and my mother was like, 'No, why don't you become a lawyer?' That sort of thing.

— Tom King

Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.

— Russell Banks

The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.

— Thomas Adams

The only way I could be extradited is through the principle of what my lawyers call "politics trumps law."

— Edward Snowden

I'm more of an engineer with a law degree than I am a lawyer with an engineering degree in terms of how…

— Ken Cuccinelli

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

— Jean-Luc Godard