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John Grisham

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We're letting the lawyers do the talking.
MIKE TRIPLETT
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YOKO ONO
We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, ver...
ALBERTO GONZALES
It's not about what's best for the lawyers. It's about representing indigent defendants.
BILL CLARK
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BEE WILSON
These people have no idea what to do without lawyers telling them what to do. They don't know what t...
SAM FIELDS
Lawyers claim that their clients have been grossly mistreated, which is what criminal defense lawyer...
KEN STARR
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
CLARENCE DARROW
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries
CLARENCE DARROW
We will not allow the court to appoint other lawyers. The lawyers are forced to attend the hearings,...
ISSAM GHAZAWI
What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about...
BEN CARSON
some of the best lawyers in the state.
JIM SULLIVAN
I would imagine the government lawyers are as equally worried about his testimony as the defense law...
BRAD LEWIS
I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intel...
LINUS TORVALDS
The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
MARIO PUZO
Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other f...
ROBERT REICH
The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. Henry Iv
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We're having our lawyers look into it.
ALAN WALTERS
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't e...
AYN RAND
The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
MARK TWAIN
When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.
RICHARD M. NIXON
I used to want to be a Lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
MAX WALKER
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
GEORGE SAVILE
The average lawyer is essentially a mechanic who works with a pen instead of a ball peen hammer.
ROBERT SCHMITT
Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large thin...
SOLON
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed
RENE DESCARTES
I love lawyers. And I like to talk to lawyers, and I like to engage in a spirited discussion with la...
JANET RENO
All but the most partisan of lawyers will agree that John Roberts is a superbly qualified nominee.
THEODORE OLSON
The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish la...
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS
The defendants have great lawyers, and great lawyers have to be good storytellers.
DAVID BERG
Lawyers tend to have something credible to say about an important subject. Lawyers have been educate...
EUGENE VOLOKH
Do you actually have lawyers here?
CYRUS KAR
Facebook is mapping your friendships; divorce lawyers' new best friend.
LILY CHATTERJEE
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
NORMAN RALPH AUGUSTINE
For elites, there is this hostility toward lawyers because they see lawyers as sort of attacking the...
MARC GALANTER
For elites, there is this hostility toward lawyers because they see lawyers as sort of attacking the...
MARC GALANTER
I played a lawyer once, and I had about three or four weeks before we shot, so I was able to go to c...
BEN BASS
Most lawyers aren't trial lawyers. Most lawyers, even trial lawyers, don't get their problem...
JANET RENO
Dees and the SPLC lawyers are the leading lawyers in the country in fighting hate crimes through dam...
ARTHUR BRYANT
Dees and the SPLC lawyers are the leading lawyers in the country in fighting hate crimes through dam...
ARTHUR BRYANT
People grumble about it, and they may complain to a lawyer they know, but they don't really know wha...
ELLIOT HICKS
A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants ...
JEAN KERR
I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.
ROY M. COHN
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
MARIA EDGEWORTH
Come when you're called And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you And you'll never be chid
MARIA EDGEWORTH
Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, ...
PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON
The sexes in each species of being . . . are always true equivalents -- equals but not identical.
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL
The law of grab is the primal law of infancy
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL
Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perver...
JONATHAN SWIFT
I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't ...
JIMMY CARTER
Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers
SPANISH PROVERB
A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.
MARIO PUZO
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Laws do not persuade because they threaten
SENECA
Law is an ass, an idiot.
CHARLES DICKENS
I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
ROY M. COHN
Should I have the good fortune to fall in with him again, I'll make a lord of him.
JOHN PAUL JONES
Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if th...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
Laws can discover sin, but not remove it
JOHN MILTON
The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE
Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass
JANE BRYANT QUINN
The robes of lawyers are lined with the obstinacy of clients
PROVERB
There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
DEREK BOK
A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM
Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break
CHARLES JOHN DARLING
The law is above the law, you know
DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS
The lawyer's first thought in the morning is how to handle the case of the ringing alarm clock.
EDWARD PACKARD, JR.
Term rates keep dropping and dropping and dropping; it's just amazing.
JANE BRYANT QUINN
You can't build new ones, so you keep what you have.
LARRY WALL
When the tribe first sat down in a circle and agreed to allow only one person to speak at a time - t...
JUDGE CURTIS BOK
I was thinking, maybe, the child was still alive.
JOHN SMITH
They're wrong. It's based on turnout, not total registered voters. Their lawyers are going to say it...
GENE PIERCE
Lawyers can't just get off a plane and walk with their briefcases into the courtroom.
PETER ANDERSEN
We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers. Some of it might not be true.
GERALD F. LIEBERMAN
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me...
W.S. GILBERT
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
MARTIAL
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no busi...
WASHINGON IRVING
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it.
DOUGLASS JERROLD
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water...
LOUIS NIZER
Lawyers are like morticians. We all need one sooner or later, but better later than sooner.
EILEEN GOUDGE
A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.
FRENCH PROVERB
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
SIR GEORGE SAVILE
A lawyer is a person that can defend a Looter with his blood,only if the Looter agrees to share his ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob ...
ANTON CHEKHOV
The 15 defendants did not have independent lawyers, they had state-appointed lawyers, who [reportedl...
TOLIB YAKUBOV
guys are like lawyers,they will do anything to hide the truth.
TAYLOR WILT
We have to rub shoulders with other lawyers across the globe to know how they deal with vast legal i...
TOM OJIENDA
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors...
ANTON CHEKHOV
Lawyers have an old saying: If the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If the law is on your si...
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My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON
I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community...
JOHN THORN
I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
JOHN LUBBOCK
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
JOHN LYDON
There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS
Get off your horse and drink your milk.
JOHN WAYNE