Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Deane

I think he'll have a very profound legacy. He has nudged the court to the right.

I think he knows that he needs every vote he can get. To some extent, by courting these groups, he's saying, 'I'm an independent-minded person.

I think he'd look back and say his greatest disappointment was his inability to lead the court to overrule Roe V. Wade.

I think given the personnel turbulence on the Supreme Court right now, as well as the less-than-clear road map the court gave us in 2004, it's a whole new ballgame.

It all goes to a philosophical difference. It is a philosophical dispute over what is drug court and how to help people with an addiction. There is a big difference of opinion in the legal profession of what is the right thing to do.

I still think it's probably recognized as one of the most socially progressive courts in the country. It has instincts to protect the poor and the powerless.

It didn't really hit me until we were walking off the court and back into the locker room. It was emotional for a lot of people. These guys are more than teammates. They are like family.

Charles Haynes

That was when the court decided to weaken the Tinker standard. The school really does have to show it would be a serious disruption.

Chauncey Billups

That was one of our goals. That and trying to get home court all the way through. So it was important.

Chauncey Billups

So many times when people are going through tough times at home or off the court, the court is everybody's safe haven. This is where we can come and take our mind off everything for two or three hours.

Donella Meadows

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

The fact that they played well and we weren't able to play at the level was something that happened on the court and didn't have anything to do with anything else.

What is there to be jubilant about? ... We have a Supreme Court that has been essentially lawless in so many respects for decades now, and a lot of work has to be done to restore it to its proper role.

Sania Mirza

I used to go swimming and passed the tennis courts every day, and that's how it started. My mum said, 'Why don't you play tennis in your summer holidays because you have nothing to do except swim for an hour or whatever?,' and that's how I started playing.

the deck of the ship which Grace captains, to the court of Queen Elizabeth I where the two remarkable women once met.

Viktor Yushchenko

The decision of the court will not disrupt the election. ... We respect the court and the decision must be fulfilled.

Sandra Day O'Connor

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

Sandra Day O'Connor

In terms of having the American people look at the court and think of it as being fair and appropriate for our nation, it helps to have women, plural, on the court.

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

Teresa Medeiros

It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.

S. E. Hinton

We were able to pressure them, and they wanted to play a half-court game. We took them out of their half court game as much as we could by pressing them pretty much the whole night.

Corey Parker

We definitely feel a lot better having him out there. I felt we played real good as a team and emotional-wise it was a big lift having him on the court again.

We definitely want to use the whole court and pressure you full court. Basically, we want to pressure the ball. If we can do that for four quarters, we're going to get a four- or six-point run late in the game.

Christine Whitman

We won this election for the President, and we deserve to have the next Supreme Court nominee, we deserve to be heard, we deserve to have our policies implemented.

We didn't have a good finish to the year. Now it comes down to how we play. For us, it's a youth situation, we'll be spreading the court out, it'll be a small style of game.

Wyoming needs a governor who will aggressively court business.

This would be a signal that political criticism and pressure on the court has had an effect. You need independence from the political process for the trial to work.

Gil Garcetti

The proponents of Proposition 22 say that (it) doesn't deny hospital visitation or inheritance rights for lesbians and gays, ... But in Florida and Virginia, arch-conservative legal organizations have used similar laws as tools in court to deny lesbians and gays fundamental rights -- like the right to visit a sick or injured partner in the hospital, the right to inheritance, or the right to health insurance.

You look up at them and what they do and how they react on the court to different things and you try to pattern that. So I just wanted to be a positive pattern for them.

Sylvia Hatchell

We go up and down the court and try to make things exciting. We play the same no matter what team we are playing. It takes people out of their rhythm and flow of their offense.

David Foster Wallace

I knew my limitations and the limitations of the courts I played on, and adjusted thusly. I was at my best in bad conditions.

E. V. Lucas

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

Kevin Smith

We used full court man-to-man defense and was able to outscore them 18-6 in the fourth quarter. It was an awfully good game.