Quotes About Court

#1. It was all battles, fights and court. Humans are far more exciting. You have colourful swearwords and cake-- - Aithinne

Elizabeth May

#2. I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black

Joe Biden

#3. The loss of courtship in modern days - like, people don't court anybody anymore. There's no beauty about it.

Sofia Vassilieva

#4. Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

Dashiell Hammett

#5. Tonight, the Court of Owls goes down. Once and for all. No more hiding. No more plotting from the shadows. Tonight their story ends. Their little song will be forgotten. Their name vanishes from Gotham's history.

Scott Snyder

#6. Preparation is the only way to get ready for a hard test, whether a court trial, race, boxing match, Broadway appearance or death. You can fake readiness, falling back on past experience and bravado. But without backbreaking preparation for a main event, you know inside that you aren't really ready.

James Donovan

#7. The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

Alan Dershowitz

#8. Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.

Herbert Hoover

#9. One of the things that drives me batty is people who think they're court watchers, who say, "Oh, Clarence Thomas. You know, his clerks do all the work for him. You know, he doesn't deserve to be there, and has never done anything."

Dahlia Lithwick

#10. In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments.

David Barton

#11. It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

William O. Douglas

#12. Fortunately, Judge Richey's decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is an example of how far the purge of Christian values has gone in America.

Bruce L. Shelley

#13. Amarantha's court had been the work of a child. The Court of Nightmares was the work of a god. While

Sarah J. Maas

#14. Gettin' dressed up for court, that's a law suit

Big Sean

#15. I did criminal defense work part-time, and that paid the bills for representing abused and neglected children ... and for defending in juvenile court those kids the 'child protective system' had missed when it had the chance.

Andrew Vachss

#16. I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

Uri Geller

#17. Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.

Isaac Asimov

#18. There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

Cliff Sloan

#19. When iniquity sits in the judgement seat, good men must take their appeals to a higher court.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#20. Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal.

John Galt

#21. And the game of basketball, I play, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

Kevin Durant

#22. U.S. Supreme Court on May 15, 1911, couched its decision in these clear terms: 'Seven men and a corporate machine have conspired against their fellow citizens. For the safety of the Republic we now decree that this dangerous conspiracy must be ended by November 15th.

Jim Marrs

#23. To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.
Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.

Anna Kavan

#24. But the Court of Criminal Appeals was not always a rubber stamp for the prosecution. Much to Mark Barrett's delight, he received the news on April 16, 1991, that a new trial had been ordered for Greg Wilhoit.

John Grisham

#25. Sometimes it is easy ... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

Anthony Kennedy

#26. Most unfortunately, Enron's plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings.

Alex Berenson

#27. What I endeavor to do is shine a light on what happens at the court, both as a law clerk and then as a litigator litigating and winning major cases in front of the Supreme Court over and over and over again.

Ted Cruz

#28. Bel Riose traveled without escort, which is not what court etiquette prescribes

Isaac Asimov

#29. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor serves as a model Supreme Court justice, widely recognized as a jurist with practical values, a sense of the consequences of the legal decisions being made by the Supreme Court.

Patrick Leahy

#30. Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court.

William Shakespeare

#31. As the elected representatives of the American people, all the people, nearly 300 million people, that we in the Senate are charged with the responsibility to examine whether to entrust their precious rights and liberties to [Supreme Court] nominee.

Patrick Leahy

#32. For a long time, the Court has moved toward outlawing all forms of racial preference, including affirmative action, and Obama seems accepting, even supportive, of the change.

Jeffrey Toobin

#33. The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound long-term effect in bringing Germans back to democracy and humanity.

Anthony Lewis

#34. Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.

Baha'u'llah

#35. Truth.
In a court of law it is little more than an interpretive tool, in reality, there are no absolutes in life, and any truth will change over time, at the end of the day, if it hurts its bad if it doesn't hurt its good, and truth sort of lurks in between those two extremes.

Steve Merrick

#36. If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

Arthur Ashe

#37. The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

Cliff Stearns

#38. The empty court is locked up. If all the injustice it has committed and all the misery it has caused could only be locked up with it, and the whole burnt away in a great funeral pyre - why

Charles Dickens

#39. The Supreme Court has a very light backlog. They leave a lot of splits among the circuits, a lot of uncertainty. And I think they ought to work a lot harder.

Arlen Specter

#40. Nominees [to Supreme Court] shouldn't be expected to pre-commit to ruling on certain issues in a certain way. Nor should senators ask nominees to pledge to rule on issues in a particular way.

Chuck Grassley

#41. If someone where playing tennis you wouldn't walk onto the court and begin to have a conversion with them, likewise I think reading is at least as important as a game of tennis.

Ian McEwan

#42. The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.

Paul Robeson

#43. Although the court recognizes his right to insist on his bond - to claim his pound of flesh - the law also prohibits him from shedding Antonio's blood.

Niall Ferguson

#44. The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.

Edmund White

#45. When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#46. This is probably as bad a day as the court has had on social issues since "Roe v Wade."

Jerry Falwell

#47. The more modest your expectations, the less often you will court disappointment.

Dorothy Dunnett

#48. I am waiting for the decision, which is not depending of me, to know if the trial will be in Iraq, in the states, or in international court. Of course, the decision is not mine.

Jacques Verges

#49. It is impossible to pursue happiness. Nobody has ever pursued it. One has to wait for it. And it is not a right at all. No law court can force you to be happy or force happiness to be with you. No government violence is capable of making you happy. No power can make you happy ...

Rajneesh

#50. Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

John Sterling

#51. The Minister-President or the richest magnate could walk the streets of Vienna without anyone turning around, but a court actor or an opera singer was recognized by every salesgirl and every cabdriver.

Stefan Zweig

#52. Exactly." Logan folded his hands again. "I wish I could be more helpful. I would like to discuss this with you again, Dr. Court." "In the meantime, we have a pattern." Ben crushed out his cigarette as he rose. "We

Nora Roberts

#53. I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

Vince Carter

#54. The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.

Kobe Bryant

#55. I am bound by the laws of the United States and all 50 states ... I am not bound by any case or any court to which I myself am not a party ... I don't think the Congress of the United States is subservient to the courts ... They can ignore a Supreme Court ruling if they so choose.

Pat Robertson

#56. Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#57. Mexico is divided over the results of its presidential election. The U.S.had offered to send in a task force to help determine the outcome, but unfortunately the Supreme Court is currently not in session.

Allan Ray

#58. The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

Richard M. Nixon

#59. Because judges may not issue advisory opinions, judicial nominees may not do so either, especially on issues likely to come before the court. That rule has always been honored.

Orrin Hatch

#60. JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances ... the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.

Ambrose Bierce

#61. You never really know a woman till you meet her in court.

Jerry Lawler

#62. The trick to defending Kentucky's home court is ... better defending

Tubby Smith

#63. O Allah,
You know that the only thing I want in this life
Is to be obedient to Your command.
Even the living sight of my eyes
Is service at your court

Rabia Basri

#64. We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

#65. Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

Lucan

#66. If there was one thing the Alethi court enjoyed more than wine, it was gossip.

Brandon Sanderson

#67. In matters of literary and historical appraisement, one cannot operate with the methods of a laboratory or furnish the proof to be demanded in a court of law. The best is only the probable. Any who raise complaint have an easy remedy: to offer something better, something coherent and constructive.

Ronald Syme

#68. We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Abraham Lincoln

#69. ~ You know young Francis Weston? He that waits on the king? His people are giving out that you're a Hebrew... Next time you're at court, take your cock out and put it on the table and see what he says to that.
~ I do that anyway, if the conversation flags.

Hilary Mantel

#70. When I lose a match, I know that I lose on the court and not in life.

Gabriela Sabatini

#71. A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.

Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre

#72. You see, however, which is called the Court of Rome, and which neither you nor any man can deny to be more corrupt than any Babylon or Sodom, and quite, as I believe, of a lost, desperate and hopeless impiety.

Martin Luther

#73. When our atheistically dominated Supreme Court removed the Ten Commandments from our halls, not a whimper was heard from the 95 million Christians in this country, who still don't realize that their religious freedoms are being systematically removed without a fight.

Tim LaHaye

#74. It is better to pay court to a queen ... than to worship, as we too often do, some unworthy person whose wealth is his sole passport into society. I believe that a habit of respect is good for the human race.

M. E. W. Sherwood

#75. I swallowed hard and said as calmly as possible, There's been a murder. I don't know what happened. The address is two-two-zero three Devonshire Court.

Andrea Heltsley

#76. I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.

Jason Kidd

#77. We are going to Court, Andrew. We are champions! We will crush them like cheap roaches! TODAY'S PIG IS TOMORROW'S BACON!

Hunter S. Thompson

#78. If the court wasn't ruled by emotions, we might as well not have lawyers or judges. Let machines do the work for us.

Anonymous

#79. I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial ... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#80. Yesterday the Supreme Court lifted the ban on same-sex marriage in Kansas. They didn't give a reason for the ruling, but then again when a state is famous for a Judy Garland musical about a rainbow and a wizard who comes out of a closet, do you really need an excuse?

Jimmy Fallon

#81. When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

Michael Bloomberg

#82. Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

Fred F. Fielding

#83. Inexplicable: I recently won in court to stop my book "America by Heart" from being leaked, but US Govt can't stop Wikileaks' treasonous act?

Sarah Palin

#84. Civilians are arrested every single day - including innocent ones - and they must wait until their day in court in order to argue their side of the story. Police officers must be subjected to the same rules.

Al Sharpton

#85. If I go down, it's never easy. At least my opponent knows they have to go to the end of the earth to take me out no matter what the circumstances. I do try to compete. Even if it's not your best day, I just try to walk off the court knowing I gave 100,000 percent.

Venus Williams

#86. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, and software has been treated as a form of speech ever since. So if software code is speech, Apple says the First Amendment also means the government can't tell Apple what to say.

Laura Sydell

#87. Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion.

Ben Shapiro

#88. Yes, yes, I'm very happy that I finally got through this match, beat No. 7 in the world. It's my best win so far. So I'm really happy the way I play today and felt really strong on the court physically, mentally.

Daniela Hantuchova

#89. Your honor, throughout this process I've asked the government and the court to hold me and only me accountable for my actions.

Jesse Jackson Jr.

#90. Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.

Richard Krajicek

#91. Should I get wind of another such rumor, I shall ruthlessly proceed against the person in question - not in a court of law, that is not my way. But I shall dedicate my next book to him ! : the economic and social consequences will teach him a lesson for the rest of his life !

Arno Schmidt

#92. I know actors who court personal publicity because they believe no publicity is bad publicity.

Kevin Whately

#93. When we go to court, they are going to have to come up with all the evidence where they are accusing me and my dedicated deputies of racial profiling. It's always easy to throw the race card in there and that's what they're doing in Washington today, that they're concerned about racial profiling.

Joe Arpaio

#94. In the last year I have gained a lot of experience because I have been playing against top players and realized what things to work on to get better. Top players basically tell you what your weaknesses are on the court.

Maria Sharapova

#95. In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented.

John Bates Clark

#96. Tennis has never been the most important thing in my life. My family, my health, my happiness ... they are more important to me. On court, I want to win. Off court, I want to be a better person. Tennis is a path to my future.

Maria Sharapova

#97. Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

Dennis Hastert

#98. Is there anyone at this court who isn't my enemy?"
"Not if I can help it," Laurent said.

C.S. Pacat

#99. He was working that charm right now on the trainer who kneeled before him and touched his thigh as though it were the thigh of David, Michelangelo's glorious statue come to life right here on court.

A.G. Starling

#100. What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked.
Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us."
"Sure," said Magnus. "And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour.

Cassandra Clare