Quotes About Court

Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.

But he was not like Walter, who might take his pleasure where he chose it. His pleasure had turned, at the last, to a kind of grief; and his love was a love so fierce and so secret it must be satisfied, with a stranger, in a reeking court like this. I knew about that kind of love. I knew how it was to bare your palpitating heart, and be fearful as you did so that the beats should come too loudly, and betray you.

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.

We had a bad court. Got a bad decision, had a court that's been overturned I may be wrong but I think it's 80% of the time.

Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court.

People lie all the time in their divorce proceedings, especially when custody is an issue.

A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

Courts musn't interfere and separate families if they could help it. Said he'd druther not take a child away from its father.

The duke he employed the court docket residence, and we went round and glued up our payments. They read like this:

They swore in the jury, and then the lawyer for the prostitution got up and begun.

She reports the breakup of the relationship as if she is presenting a case in court - all facts, no feeling. I lean forward in my chair and comment softly, "How painful that must have been for you.

Night' was a code word for sodomy in Tuscan comic literature – as is suggested by the title of the magistrates specifically detailed to deal with the problem, the Officers of the Night. According to court records, most encounters between casual male partners took place between sunset, when work ended, and the third or fourth hour after nightfall, the time of curfew, when the taverns closed.

Did you ever hear of a congress of lawyers for simplifying the law and discouraging litigation? What

HALE, to Parris, trying to contain himself: Is every defense an attack upon the court? Can no one—?

Your mind is your only judge of truth--and if others dissent your verdict, reality is the final court of appeal. John Galt

JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: What's your name, Bailiff?! BAILIFF: Julius of Outer Mongolia.

BAILIFF (cautiously): Sir, his name's El-Fayoumy. JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: What? BAILIFF: You called him El-Fajita. JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Just gimme my glasses! BAILIFF: You're wearing them, sir.

CUNNINGHAM: Your Honor, Defense reconjures Satan to the stand. JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Lou, you can come in now … Bailiff! Go fetch him! Go fetch Satan! BAILIFF: Alone? JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Go!

Ironically, the only two "relevan[t]" metrics that the Court does identify are "how and why" a gun control regulation "burden[s the] right to armed self-defense." In other words, the Court believes that the most relevant metrics of comparison are a regulation's means (how) and ends (why)—even as it rejects the utility of means-end scrutiny.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

She listens to the history of her painting read aloud in court and finds it hard to associate her portrait, the little painting that has hung serenely on her bedroom wall, with such trauma, such globally significant events.

provenance." The judge coughs and examines his notes. Paul murmurs to the woman director