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Quotes About Court

That was one of the most hurtful things, to have my mother see me in court and to have my mother see me behind bars.
~ R-Truth
People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.
~ Jeff Bingaman
The serve was invented so that the net could play.
~ Bill Cosby
Chris Darden made a huge error in asking O.
~ Bill James
My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.
~ Bill Scott
I'm going to isolate Barry off the court like a mass murderer so he can't interact with teammates in any way. We'll have to treat him the same way Hannibal Lecter was treated:
~ Bill Simmons
As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.
~ Bill Williams
Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
~ H.L. Mencken
Here cosmic sin had entered, and festered by unhallowed rites had commenced the grinning march of death that was to rot us all to fungous abnormalities too hideous for the grave's holding. Satan here held his Babylonish court, and in the blood of stainless childhood the leprous limbs of phosphorescent Lilith were laved.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
This story took no more than perhaps ten minutes to tell, and when it was over - the senseless, needless destruction of twenty-seven years in less than twenty-four hours - one thought foolishly: everyone, everyone should have his day in court.
~ Hannah Arendt
The Connecticut Open is one of my favorite events in the summer, so it feels great to have it confirmed on my calendar. I have a special relationship with the tournament and always feel such strong support when I'm on the court there.
~ Petra Kvitova
It's always important when you play in a tournament that they have a basketball court and an arena.
~ Jim Boeheim
With doubles, I've never really gone out and been like, 'I really want to win this tournament,' or, 'I really want to do well in doubles this week.' It's more extra time on the court and to go out there and have fun. And I've happened to do well at it.
~ Jack Sock
I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.
~ LeBron James
Deep down I knew that if Hell existed, it was a real place full of ruthless, venal people, like the commodity pits at the Chicago Board of Trade, Disney World, or oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court.
~ Richard Dooling
I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.
~ Abraham Lincoln
My mother had a two-part plan: first to end these court-mandated visits.
~ Sherry Turkle
We literally lawyered our heads off. Morning, noon, and night all we heard was lawyer, lawyer, lawyer.
~ Sholem Aleichem
Rupert: "... At this rate, somebody is bound to upset the Warlock once too often, and we'll end up with a Court full of bemused looking toads." "He wouldn't dare use his magic here," said the Champion. "Don't bet on it," said Rupert. "The High Warlock has all the practicality and self-preservation instincts of a depressed lemming.
~ Simon R. Green
No-one's used a wand in the Nightside for centuries. Wands went out with black cats and pointy hats. (All right, the Faerie Court still use them, but the Fae have always been weird.)
~ Simon R. Green
Power is always personal: any study of a Western democratic leader today reveals that, even in a transparent system with its short periods in office, personalities shape administrations. Democratic leaders often rule through trusted retainers instead of official ministers. In any court, power is as fluid as human personality.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
At Peter's court, the tournament of power would be still more vicious. The prizes were glittering, the ascent vertiginous, the descent sudden and the end often lethal.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
Een lange, beverige zucht ontsnapt Margaretha. Een van de adviseurs die achter haar staan, de heer Barlaymont, buigt zich naar haar toe. 'Quoi Madame, peur de ces gueux?' fluistert hij haar toe in het Frans, de taal van het hof.
~ Simone van der Vlugt
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
~ Sir Walter Scott