Quotes about la
law justice clients
Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients. Alan Dershowitz
law freedom-of-speech censorship
Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.
law world zimmerman
Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to listen to the facts and apply the law to the best of their ability in a case the world was watching. Alafair Burke
law rely-upon facts
In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.
labels hard knows
I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole. Al Yankovic
lazy sloth quoting
There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting. Alain de Botton
laughter optimistic laughing
I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day- to- day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.
law ideas errors
Symons ... remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling.
layers interest latent
Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
latin issues use
The term power comes from the Latin posse- to do, to be able, to change, to influence or effect. To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power. The central issue of power in leadership is not Will it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well? Al Gini
laughter democracy realizing
I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent. Al Franken
law competition competing
Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
law decision choices
I've chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice are we, in John Adams' phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power? Al Gore
law light important
As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws
law authority cases
My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.
labels benefits feels
At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit. Aimee Mann
land people desire
The Promised Land was a tangible representation of God's ultimate desire for His people, but they failed to comprehend His gift for at least three reasons: It was unconditionally promised, it was outrageously generous, and it was absolutely free. None of those make sense in the world as we know it... Charles R. Swindoll
laughing sacred praying
It is often just as sacred to laugh as it is to pray.
law roots vaunt
Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws. Charles Kingsley
latin matter way
I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin). Charles Clarke
land knaves fool
Knaves starve not in the land of fools. Charles Churchill
law lawyer suspects
The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.
land size culture
England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size.
law advancement origin-of-species
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. Charles Darwin
law free-will fixed
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
law facts predictions
Till facts be grouped and called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen and to see the bearing of scattered facts.
land feet water
The theory which I would offer, is simply, that as the land with the attached reefs subsides very gradually from the action of subterranean causes, the coral-building polypi soon raise again their solid masses to the level of the water: but not so with the land; each inch lost is irreclaimably gone; as the whole gradually sinks, the water gains foot by foot on the shore, till the last and highest peak is finally submerged.
laughter inspiration mouths
Describing laughter: The sound is produced by a deep inspiration followed by short, interrupted, spasmodic contractions of the chest, and especially the diaphragm... the mouth is open more or less widely, with the corners drawn much backwards, as well as a little upwards; and the upper lip is somewhat raised.
law direct-action growth
A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.
language species
A language, like a species, when extinct, never ... reappears.
law desire facts
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.
lasts conclusion disbelief
Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.
law rewards england
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. Charles Babbage