Legal Maxim Quotes

#1. The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

Larry Niven

#2. Many of the novelists I admire never left their hometown. Look at Flannery O'Connor. So many of the great Russians never left Russia. Shakespeare never left England. The list goes on.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#3. I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#4. I am first, and foremost, an actor. That's what I am. To me, a song is a mini-drama. My musical ability informs the actor as well because it gives me a sense of timing that non-musicians don't have. So, one hand washes the other.

Theodore Bikel

#5. Might have a couple of kinks to work through, Hale admitted then reached for her hand. As soon as he touched her, Kat knew there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes
they are the masters of their own fate. And right then Kat wouldn't have changed a thing.

Ally Carter

#6. You can only see your current horizon. Every time you move nearer to your desired destination, new horizons will become clear. New, previously hidden, opportunities will come into view.

Chris Murray

#7. Meg sighs. "That sounded really bitchy, huh?" She's one of the nicest people I've ever known, but when she's drunk, the girl can get a little mean.

Apryl Baker

#8. But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.

Bo Jackson

#9. Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

H.P. Lovecraft

#10. [A} maxim's legal character must be intrinsic: it must have what I shall call 'lawlike form.' this is why legal character, or universality, must be understood as lawlike form, that is, as a requirement of universalizability.

Christine M. Korsgaard

#11. It is important to understand that in the modern world we prefer the replica to the original because it gives us the greater frisson. I leave that word in French because I think you understand it well that way.

Julian Barnes