Quotes About Lawyering

#1. So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob.

William Landay

#2. The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.

Catherine Crier

#3. There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending.

Sergio De La Pava

#4. The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice of its attendants are committed to justice. As lawyering has become less about doing right and more about doing what you can get away with, our standards of acceptable shenanigans-as-usual seem to be in a free fall.

Holman W. Jenkins Jr.

#5. Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

George F. Will

#6. To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

Sonia Sotomayor

#7. This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.

Charles Soule

#8. What did I know about lawyering? I just thought it was another way to stay in Austin for another three years.

Joe Jamail

#9. The five rings of marriage: there's the engagement ring and the wedding ring, but there are three others, too: the boring, the suffering and the lawyering. I watched it for 20 years from behind a bar in Ft. Lauderdale. I prefer to stay single.

Steve Trotter

#10. Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on the client, they're going to defend people.

Lynne Stewart

#11. PR is a mix of journalism, psychology, and lawyering - it's an ever-changing and always interesting landscape.

Ronn Torossian

#12. I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them. Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like them.

Pope Francis

#13. Too many piglets not enough tits.

Abraham Lincoln

#14. Sitting in the deserted law offices, Sanders had the feeling that he was all alone in the world, with nobody but Fernandez and the encoraching darkness. Things were happening quickly; this person he had never met before today was fast becoming a kind of lifeline for him.

Michael Crichton

#15. The art of negotiation favored not the one with the better odds but the one who could convince his opponents that his were the best odds.

Grace Draven

#16. The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best
talking about other lawyers.

John Grisham

#17. As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system
the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges
would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

Scott Turow

#18. A window is just a window. Colored glass: mere glass. But in the sun it becomes more. She would show him, and say, love should do this.

Marie Rutkoski

#19. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane.

George Orwell

#20. Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

Peter Porter

#21. Towards evening, they wound down precipices, black with forest of cypress, pine and cedar, into a glen so savage and secluded, that, if Solicitude ever had local habitation, this might have been "her place of dearest residence

Ann Radcliffe

#22. Doing the little things can make a big difference.

Yogi Berra

#23. I've barely woken up and I'm faced with this spawn of Satan sitting on my bed.

Courtney Cole

#24. I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

Richard Lewis

#25. He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all.

John Grisham

#26. I'm happy to have had everything healed. We're fine.

Marla Maples

#27. I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans.

Will Poulter