Quotes About Judicial Precedent

#1. Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.

John Otto

#3. Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.

Jeffery Deaver

#4. All guys are jerks but they get hotter with age and we learn to be more tolerant.

Kristen Bell

#5. There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#6. In 'Bush v. Gore,' five justices had a partisan outcome in mind and then made up the judicial principle to justify it, while claiming that the decision would not be precedent for any future cases.

Marvin Ammori

#7. Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath.

John Roberts

#8. So long as a canvas is empty its potential is infinite ... The empty canvas can become a gateway into the landscape of nightmares or a vision of sensual bliss.

Ben Okri

#9. In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to boycott German goods ...

Edwin Black

#10. God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. I would like a child to grow up to have a happy life and make a contribution to society. I don't mean to be a big scientist or something like that. How many people can do that? I think if you live a happy life and are a good person, that is a contribution to society.

Leslie T. Chang

#12. Is there a reason for the sudden fashion for the eight-goal tie? Maybe it's because defending is hard, and boring, and thankless, and most people who are paid a six-figure sum weekly do very little that is hard or boring or thankless.

Nick Hornby