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Quotes About Judge

Objection! Metz shouts. Grounds? the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!
~ Jodi Picoult
As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?
~ Jodi Picoult
Jeremiah says that God is one who enforces and delights in justice (Jeremiah 9:24), and Isaiah calls him "a God of justice" (Isaiah 30:18). He will one day "judge the world with justice" (Acts 17:31).
~ Unknown
Law, says the judge as he looks down his nose,Speaking clearly and most severely,Law is as I've told you before,Law is as you know I suppose,Law is but let me explain it once more,Law is The Law.
~ W. H. Auden
Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?
~ Unknown
The fact that Judge [Samuel] Alito is such a baseball fan gives me even more confidence that he knows the proper role of a judge.
~ Orrin Hatch
The role of a doctor may be the most revealing image in thinking about God and sin. What a doctor does for me physically - guide me toward health - God does for me spiritually. I am learning to view sins not as an arbitrary list of rules drawn up by a cranky Judge, but rather as a list of dangers that must be avoided at all costs - for our own sakes.
~ Philip Yancey
Then the good and wise judge whom we are seeking is not this man, but the other; for vice cannot know virtue too, but a virtuous nature, educated by time, will acquire a knowledge both of virtue and vice: the virtuous, and not the vicious, man has wisdom—in my opinion.
~ Plato
such a God as the theologians would have us pray to—a God who in a world of suffering aids some but not others—cannot contain the mercy ascribed to him. Therefore, I say: such God as we pray to does not exist. And to this I add: there is no divine intervention. There is no divine judge. So we must supply for ourselves notions of good and ill. This is the purview and millstone of the philosophe.
~ Rachel Kadish
mercilessly by the judge who dismisses the charges as "utterly without merit, based on manufactured evidence
~ Dean Koontz
Judge Rountree holds half my property in the palm of his hand. Denton's growl broke the silence. I'd appreciate if you didn't insult him at all, much less in his own home. He named his children One, Two, Three, and Four, she said. He deserves to be insulted.
~ Deeanne Gist
Lamont, like the judge?" He tipped his head in embarrassment and looked away quickly. She smiled kindly at him. The two great sources of shame: privilege and penury.
~ Denise Mina
Do ye dare to draw arms against the justice of God? snapped the tubby little judge. Jamie drew the sword completely, with a flash of steel, then thrust it point-first into the ground, leaving the hilt quivering with the force of the blow. I draw it in defense of this women, and the truth, he said If any here be against those two they'll answer to me, and then God, in that order.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Young and inexperienced Grey might be, but he was not unobservant. Neither was he a poor judge of men.
~ Diana Gabaldon
A judge is supposed to have empathy for no one but simply to follow the law.
~ Wendy Long
He is summoned and asked to swear upon the only book the judge will allow in "his court." PaPa LaBas won't dare touch the accursed thing. He demands the right to his own idols and books. It reminds PaPa LaBas of the familiar epigram: "Orthodoxy is my Doxy, Heterodoxy is the other fellow's Doxy.
~ Ishmael Reed
So then I had to choose.
~ Unknown
It matters that we have balance and facts and push people when they need to be pushed so that we can give the accurate, fair, balanced piece to the viewer, and then it's up to the viewer to be the judge.
~ Brooke Baldwin
Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.
~ Rowan Williams
Death sits on my shoulder like a crow … Or a judge, muttering about sluts and punishment. And licking his lips.
~ Louise Penny
This judge has a chip on her shoulder the size of the whole goddamned courthouse.
~ Jodi Picoult
Taking a deep breath, I shake my head and find Judge staring at me. Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans, I say. Once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.
~ Jodi Picoult
The next day, again, lest they should, through the multitude of business, forget me, we did throw another petition into the coach to Judge Twisdon; who, when he had seen it, snapt her up, and angrily told her that I was a convicted person, and could not be released, unless I would promise to preach no more, etc.
~ John Bunyan
I was a sitting judge in Manhattan. I was a supervising judge in Manhattan, and they said to me, 'Did you ever think of doing what you do on television?'
~ Judy Sheindlin