Inquest Quotes

#1. Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.

Robert H. Jackson

#2. But then, of course, there are always unanswered questions. Those questions lead to more questions, with the circularity of the endless inquest, keeping people like me in business. We can and should always poke at the questions of motivation. And we will. There never is a final draft of history.

Bob Woodward

#3. Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#4. The six-man inquest jury assembled was composed of local residents, men whose lives strikingly resembled that of the murdered Robert Newsom.

Melton A. McLaurin

#5. He was half-white and half-Korean, but when asked about his ethnicity, he always said Hawaiian, a declaration of racial neutrality that, more often than not, let him avoid further inquest.

Don Lee

#6. Children have very little voice, and the coroner's inquest is about Luke's voice, and making sure Luke is heard and respected and honoured. I don't want him to have died in vain.

Rosie Batty

#7. I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

Alex Campbell

#8. Whenever a husband and a wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

H.L. Mencken

#9. They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

William Congreve

#10. The truth is that no one ever knew how Joseph Buquet met his death. The verdict at the inquest was "natural suicide." In

Gaston Leroux

#11. Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

Helen Rowland

#12. When someone is missing the really hard thing is that you never really do give up hope, even though the inquest says that she is dead, even though right from the beginning we already knew that we wouldn't see her again.

Jackie French

#13. Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

Leonard Cohen

#14. Am I responsible or are you', a senior official asked his pilot, dubiously beginning a flight to Baghdad, 'for seeing that this machine is not overloaded?' 'That will have to be decided at the inquest.

LeBron James

#15. A jury of inquest was impaneled, and after due deliberation and inquiry they returned the inevitable American verdict which has been so familiar to our ears all the days of our lives - "NOBODY TO BLAME.

Mark Twain

#16. A herp is simply the kind of animal studied by a herpetologist, and that is a pretty lame way to define an animal. The only other name that comes close is the biblical 'creeping thing

Richard Dawkins

#17. You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is.

Tom Verlaine

#18. Yes, light, there is no other word for it.

Samuel Beckett

#19. So everybody who talks about homosexuals as a damnation better look in a mirror and try to heal their own selves. Who they call homosexuals do, at least, act out of their love. That's better than the hate a whole lot of people act out of.

J. California Cooper

#20. Anyone who doesn't learn from Ian Rush needs shooting.

Robbie Fowler