Quotes About Practicing Law

#1. The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.

Ben Fountain

#2. In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

Christopher Darden

#3. What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

Edward Bennett Williams

#4. I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine.

George J. Mitchell

#5. I like practicing law.

Bill Janklow

#6. The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

Jeffery Deaver

#7. What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.

Nathan Sawaya

#8. There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now.

Bill Scott

#9. After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.

Doreen Cronin

#10. I started out a human being. But pretty much had all the humanity wrung out of me after passing the Bar and practicing law for ten years. Not sure what I am now.

Jeffrey Rasley

#11. I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.

Karen DeCrow

#12. All Negroes shall be prohibited from voting, holding public office, practicing law, medicine, or teaching in any class above the grade of grammar school, and they shall be taxed 100 per cent of all sums in excess of $10,000 per family per year which they may earn or in any other manner receive.

Sinclair Lewis

#13. I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.

Gloria Allred

#14. Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can ... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.

Ed Rendell

#15. There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

Nathan Sawaya

#16. I find it strange that practicing law in a comfortable well-heated office is considered too demanding an occupation for women, yet laboring from dawn's first light in crowded, drafty, ill-lit sweatshops is not.

Shirley Tallman

#17. The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who is practicing meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#18. What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it.

Thomas Kuhn

#19. Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#20. Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Addison Mizner

#21. You have to get into the water and learn against what seems to be the law gravity to float and dancing, or athletics takes you years before you develop a skill. But if you work at it, practicing daily, you can enable your body to do things that are utterly impossible to an untrained physic.

Karen Armstrong

#22. He who practices Tasawwuf without learning Sacred Law corrupts his faith, while he who learns Sacred Law without practicing Tasawwuf corrupts himself.
Only he who combines the two proves true.

Malik Ibn Anas

#23. Whatever belief I am practicing the Law of Attraction will validate with evidence.

Esther Hicks

#24. My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

David Guterson

#25. In order to get the worst possible first impression of Los Angeles one should arrive there by bus, preferably in summer and on a Saturday night.

Christopher Isherwood

#26. I can't say with certitude.

Anthony Weiner

#27. Your life is your ship and you are the captain. Choose your course, take the wheel firmly and get on your way.

Michael Josephson

#28. Well ... Actually I got picked because I was the only one who fit the wedding gown - they had my size.

Kevin McDonald

#29. Kafka earned his doctorate in law in 1906 but decided against practicing, to the disappointment of his father.

Franz Kafka

#30. I love people that read. I think it screams humility. When someone reads, they are essentially admitting they want more, that the world is not enough for them. They want more knowledge, more experience. Whatever this life is, they want more of it.

Nicholas Browne

#31. Understanding is the first step of accepting!

Ey Ramos

#32. I always have to be writing.

Taylor Swift