Skip to content

Heart Quote by Gerry Spence

“There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or…” quote by Gerry Spence — Download Open image

“There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Heart Known Lawyer Littles Passion Speak Writing

More by Gerry Spence

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who…

Image

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the…

Image

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of…

Image

Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of his own…

Image

The new and most powerful union of all will be a union of one one man, one woman, one worker with special skills, an…

Image

Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived…

Image

Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.

Image

Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living…

Image

What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.

Image

A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which,…

Image

Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy's house and beats a confession out of him and…

Image

Our prejudices - we all have them - are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at…

Image

Explore all 75 Gerry Spence quotes

More Heart quotes

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Image

My heart jumps out of its cage to see what the fuss is about. Damn thing. Always so hopeful, but my voice hides it…

Image

I love because there is not enough room in my heart to hate.

Rena Kornreich Gelissen

Image

The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of…

Image

Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas…

Image

When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't…

Joan Z. Borysenko

Image

My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast.…

Image

O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!

William Shakespeare

Image

Love will fan the flame, and that flame will warm the heart that's waiting.

Michael W. Smith

Image

Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting.

Gennadius of Constantinople

Image

Set NOT your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of…

Image

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart…

Image

Browse all 35,259 Heart quotes