Top 100 Do Justice Quotes
#1. To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#2. Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity
Do Justice
Learn from the World Community
Nurture People
Cherish the Natural Order
Non-Conform Freely.
Doris Janzen Longacre
#3. I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
Kajol
#4. We can't do justice to our dreams, reworking them in memory. They seem borrowed, part of another life, ours only maybe and only in the farthest margins.
Don DeLillo
#5. I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.
Hal Duncan
#6. It is, in fact, a great mistake to think we must suppress observations of human differences if we are to do justice to human dignity. The dignity of the person is not touched by such observations, for the dignity of human beings as persons is not an object of observation but of recognition.
Robert Spaemann
#7. When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.
Freida Pinto
#8. To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.
Walter Benjamin
#9. If we are to do justice to the essence of the thing we call spirit, we should really speak of a "higher" consciousness rather than of the unconscious.
C. G. Jung
#10. I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.
Tony Campolo
#11. You may assuredly find perfect peace, if you are resolved to do that which your Lord has plainly required
and content that He should indeed require no more of you
than to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Him.
John Ruskin
#12. Actually 'bad' doesn't do justice to my handwriting. Neither does 'handwriting.' 'Desecration of paper' about covers it.
Mark Barrowcliffe
#13. Words cannot do justice to a good book, ironically.
Myself
#14. But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
Rudolf Otto
#15. T is good to do justice because God will kill you and your family whether you do justice or not.
Adam Levin
#16. With such warm feelings and lively spirits it must be difficult to do justice to her affection for Mrs. Crawford, without throwing a shade on the Admiral.
Jane Austen
#17. All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
Martin Heidegger
#18. Only an elaborate treatise in ecology could do justice to the subject of what went wrong,
James C. Scott
#19. In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.
Benjamin Disraeli
#20. I hope the artist who illustrates this work will take care to do justice to his portrait. Mr. Clive himself, let that painter be assured, will not be too well pleased if his countenance and figure do not receive proper attention.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#21. Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.
William Hazlitt
#22. To say someone has lost her mind does not do justice to what madness looks like. It's not as if a person's mind rolls out of her head, lodges under the carpet or between the cracks of the sofa, and is therefore retrievable by some logical search.
Alexandra Fuller
#23. But the objection being raised was not due to the phrase's overall lack of verve; rather it was due to the word facilitate. Specifically, the verb had been accused of being so tepid and prim that it failed to do justice to the labors of the men in the room.
Amor Towles
#24. It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice
Thomas Jefferson
#25. The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.
Theodore Roosevelt
#26. The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.
Edmund Morris
#27. Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises ...
H.P. Lovecraft
#28. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.
William Hazlitt
#29. My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
Richard Dawkins
#30. The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
Adam Hamilton
#31. If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own, then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.
Lord Chesterfield
#32. A vampire?" MacAullif said.
There is no way I can do justice to the skepticism, sarcasm, and mistrust with which MacAullif managed to imbue the word.
"That's right."
"You want me to find a vampire?"
"I'd be relieved if you could. I'm afraid he might be dead.
Parnell Hall
#34. Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe are to continue talking about "data" in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.
John Dewey
#35. We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#36. I wish popularity; but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after
it is that popularity which sooner or later never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means.
William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield
#37. What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whether the characters are rich or not, and if I can do justice to the character or not. Some movies you look at and the script is so bad that no one can do anything with the script.
Larenz Tate
#38. O you who reproach me, regarding my love, excuse me.
From me to you if you do justice, you would not reproach me.
My state (of love) has been expressed to you, (now) my secret is no longer concealed.
Busiri
#40. My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.
Sonia Sotomayor
#41. Well, I didn't feel that I could do justice to this story of my parents and their generation, and all that they did to make it possible for me to be who I am, if I sort of just put it at the beginning of a book about my last eight years in foreign policy.
Condoleezza Rice
#42. Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.
Joan Baez
#43. The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.
Vartan Gregorian
#44. Any judge knows there are many kinds of justice - for instance, ideal justice as opposed to the best-we-can-do justice, which is what we end up with in making so many of our decisions.
Louise Erdrich
#45. And I can't cry, I don't even want to cry. My tears would never do justice to this loss.
Kate Atkinson
#46. When we raise our vibration to the state of "Being Love," we change and our world shifts into something so delicious and intoxicating that words hardly do justice to its description.
Leeza Donatella
#47. Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.
James J. Corbett
#48. Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.
Alan Ryan
#49. Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
Berthold Auerbach
#50. Furthermore, even a deep, penetrating sense of our sinfulness does not do justice to the reality of our predicament. Our need is not to be measured by our own sense of need, but by what God had to do to meet that need.
Jerry Bridges
#51. Ian Callaghan is everything good that a man can be. No praise is too high for him. Words cannot do justice to the amount he has contributed to the game. Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game's truly great players.
Bill Shankly
#52. The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it.
James Madison
#53. Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
Charles Caleb Colton
#54. When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.
Sachin Tendulkar
#55. But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered the elements of your craft, in the act of writing you will learn the rest of what you need to know in order to do justice to your subject.
Philip Gerard
#56. It is the duty of a judge to do justice, but it is only the people who can be just
Alan Paton
#57. One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.
Graham Hawkes
#58. I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to do justice to the words. You're just a medium for people to feel the song.
D.A. Wallach
#59. The judge does not make the law. It is the people that make the law. It is the duty of a judge to do justice, but it is only the people that can be just
Alan Paton
#60. Thee mustn't speak evil of thy rulers, Simeon," said his father, gravely. "The Lord only gives us our worldly goods that we may do justice and mercy; if our rulers require a price of us for it, we must deliver it up.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#61. I didn't think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who wore a cloak of complexity and elusiveness, but Lisa Rogak has done an exemplary job of it.
Otto Penzler
#62. It was going to be the journey of a lifetime, a journey that millions
dream of and never make, and I wanted to do justice to all those dreams.
Ted Simon
#63. You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.
William Shawcross
#64. Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow.
James Freeman Clarke
#65. Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.
(Waterstones Trafalgar Square)
Waterstones
#66. If the law does not do justice, the people will mock the law. Vess
Sheri S. Tepper
#67. Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#68. ... The political leader must constantly appraise and reappraise the means through which 'he can hope to do justice to the responsibility that power imposes upon him' while at the same time pursuing political values with conviction.
Nicholas Gane
#69. Karma and manifestation work 24/7 to balance the scales. Do justice, in due time.
T.F. Hodge
#70. All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.
N. T. Wright
#71. Lord, You made us and gave us breath. May we do justice, love and mercy, and walk honorably before you this day. By the precious name of Jesus, I ask for your help to do this. Amen.
Dee Henderson
#72. I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.
Betty White
#73. When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.
Jason Newsted
#74. Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.
Eliot Spitzer
#75. I could tell you a thousand times,
How much I love you,
It still would not do justice on how much I love you.
Stacey Chillemi
#76. The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.
W. H. Auden
#77. There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.
Branford Marsalis
#78. Angels? These words registered when I was writing down my recollections. But neither of these words do justice to the beings themselves, which were quite simply different from anything I have known on this planet. They were more advanced. Higher.
Eben Alexander
#79. The word house didn't begin to do justice for the white and gray structure in front of me. I actually had to tilt my head back to see all the way up to the roof.
Jeaniene Frost
#80. The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.
Elihu Root
#81. He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8
Anonymous
#82. If we cannot fully understand the acts of other people, until we know what they think they know, then in order to do justice we have to appraise not only the information which has been at their disposal, but the minds though which they have filtered it.
Walter Lippmann
#83. I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.
Peter Doig
#84. Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?
Adam Levin
#85. I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.
Lata Mangeshkar
#86. So what will you do, m'lord, now that you're the Hand of the King?" Shae asked him as he cupped that warm sweet flesh. "Something Cersei will never expect," Tyrion murmured softly against her slender neck. "I'll do ... justice.
George R R Martin
#87. I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.
Navi Rawat
#88. I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans.
Amelia Boynton Robinson
#89. No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.
Marty Rubin
#90. Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him.
John Ruskin
#91. The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and
his own discrimination.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#92. I think that the United States should be the leader, not only militarily. We need to stand for freedom; we need to stand for justice in the world, because there aren't too many countries that do.
James K. Glassman
#93. I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.
Tracey Gold
#94. It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
Socrates
#95. I'm always scared to death that I won't do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.
Hilary Swank
#96. I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.
Charles Kingsley
#97. Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed.
Anonymous
#98. I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice.
J.K. Rowling
#99. [Y]ou wonder why anyone would make the mistake of calling it the Commerce Clause instead of the 'Hey, you -can-do-whatever-you-feel-like Clause?
Alex Kozinski
#100. Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?
Edward Kennedy
