L A Law Quotes

#1. I had no idea 'L.A. Law' would be so mega. I knew it was a big show, but I was just one actress in a group of many good, award-winning actresses.

Amanda Donohoe

#2. I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.

Peter Ackroyd

#3. I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

Rene Auberjonois

#4. My intent was to go to law school ... And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on L.A. Law.

Kevin Rahm

#5. Most of my work had been in theater, and I was jumping not just into television but 'L.A. Law,' which had all these megastars in it.

Tom Verica

#6. I tend not to spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. If you say, 'Oh, I did 'Hill Street Blues' or 'L.A. Law' and everything I do has to measure up to some preconceived notion of that,' it would paralyze you.

Steven Bochco

#7. My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing 'L.A. Law,' and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn't a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call.

Corbin Bernsen

#8. No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.

H.L. Mencken

#9. The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed; it is there that lawbreaking attains to the estate and dignity of a learned profession; it is there that contempt for the laws is engendered, fostered, and spread broadcast.

H.L. Mencken

#10. Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

H.L. Mencken

#11. Don't go for that gun," I said quietly. "I want you tried in a court of law, not dead on this floor.

Louis L'Amour

#12. With its continued dismissal of the law of God in ethics, Fundamentalism expressed both a "spiritualized" form of situational ethics and a "Christianly submissive" statism.

Greg L. Bahnsen

#13. It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.

H.L. Mencken

#14. America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws.

L. Neil Smith

#15. The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

H.A.L. Fisher

#16. I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast.

Louis L'Amour

#17. He believed that there was need in the world for a class freed from the handicap of law and morality, a class acutely adaptable and immoral; a class bent on achieving, not the equality of all men, but the production, at the top, of the superman.

H.L. Mencken

#18. The law of the fast benefits both those who fast and those who stand in need ... In addition to providing the means for taking care of the poor among us, fasting is a principle of power which helps us to individually achieve righteous purposes in our lives.

Victor L. Brown

#19. There's a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.

L. Neil Smith

#20. There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#21. Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts.

L. Ron Hubbard

#22. He was my strength when I needed him to be, my friend when I needed someone to talk me down, my equal in a world where by law I would always be less than him, and honest to gods, he was the love of my life.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#23. Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#24. I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#25. Ally may be Evan's by law, but she's mine by nature. And in a battle between lions, no one gives a fuck about what's lawful.

S.L. Jennings

#26. The desire of our hearts, of course, is not only to acquire salvation and immortality but also to attain eternal life with a loving Father in Heaven and our Savior in the celestial kingdom with our families. We can obtain eternal life only through obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel.

Quentin L. Cook

#27. Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another man his troubles, and if anyone wants a monopoly on dianetics, be assured that he wants it for reasons which have to do not with dianetics but with profit.

L. Ron Hubbard

#28. Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

H.L. Mencken

#29. Nullification is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a jury, as community conscience, to disregard the strict requirements of law where it finds that those requirements cannot justly be applied in a particular case.

David L. Bazelon

#30. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner

H.L. Mencken

#31. " ... arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable."

Luther L. Bohanon

#32. The Law can only chase a man to Calvary, no further.

Dwight L. Moody

#33. The law stops every man's mouth. God will have a man humble himself down on his face before Him, with not a word to say for himself. Then God will speak to him, when he owns that he is a sinner, and gets rid of all his own righteousness.

Dwight L. Moody

#34. It is a favorite thing with infidels to set their own standard, to measure themsleves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God's law as a balance weight.

Dwight L. Moody

#35. Whatever it is you want in this life, be it material things, a place you want to be, or an experience you want to have, you must first make it real in the realm of your consciousness.

Brandi L. Bates

#36. Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

H.L. Mencken

#37. A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

H.L. Mencken

#38. A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law.

Big L

#39. I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#40. The allegiance of the citizen, in the only sense in which the word can be tolerated in a republic, is due to the law. What idea other men may have of a law higher than the supreme law, I know not. Like the notion of the Stoics concerning Fate, it is perfectly incomprehensible.

James L. Petigru

#41. The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art," and everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O.K.; kicking little girls in the head is O.K.; even a film like L'Age d'Or is O.K.

George Orwell

#42. The Word of God is a seamless garment, and men who deny its law deny its eschatology also, and are deprived of God's power. It is not surprising, therefore, that this is an era of impotence for the church.

Greg L. Bahnsen

#43. Dworkin, for example, argues that our law includes not only norms found in treaties, customs, constitutions, statutes, and cases, but also moral principles that provide the best justification for the norms found there.5 On his account the things justified by moral

H. L. A. Hart

#44. There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.

L.A. Paul

#45. What we did not possess we had to make for ourselves or learn to do without, but the little I learned helped me to build a defense against the change that time would surely bring, to teach me that to live was to change, and that change was the one irrevocable law. Nothing remained the same.

Louis L'Amour

#46. Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#47. If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

H.L. Mencken

#48. I went to a public high school with a magnet program for law and psychology. But right before my junior year, I decided that I wanted to leave and become an actress, so I graduated early and moved out to L.A.

Ashley Greene

#49. The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

Louis L'Amour

#50. The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains.

Dudley North

#51. Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

H.L. Mencken