Presiding Judge Quotes

#1. I didn't look in Marie's direction. I didn't have time to, because the presiding judge told me in bizarre language that I was to have my head cut off in a public square in the name of the French people...

Albert Camus

#2. And eventually, he (Charles Manson) testified to an empty court, as Bugliosi had convinced the presiding judge Older, that Manson's hypnotic powers might convince the jury he was innocent.

Nikolas Schreck

#3. I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

Alphonse Karr

#4. The presiding judge ruled that a black person must surely be insane to think that he could be admitted to the University of Mississippi.

Yuval Noah Harari

#5. All beds became deathbeds at last.

Gene Wolfe

#6. A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.

St. Jerome

#7. Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.

Horace Kephart

#8. I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

Timothy Ferriss

#9. The more I study history the more I realize how little mankind has changed. There are no new scripts, just different actors.

Richard Paul Evans

#10. The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#11. If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#12. Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.

James Hunter

#13. Savor, don't gorge.

John Irving

#14. Light and air - what means wherewith to conjure up illusions and deceive the senses!

John C. Van Dyke

#15. I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.

Quentin Blake

#16. Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

Nicolas Chamfort

#17. Baltsaros's face was flushed, his lip curled into a slight sneer as he stared back at Jon. He felt a rush of adrenaline as he realized what the captain wanted from him.

"Hit him again," Jon said. "And don't hold back this time.

Bey Deckard

#18. Change the world today. Start with the next person you meet.

Dillon Burroughs

#19. Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.

Marianne Williamson