John George Nicolay Quotes

While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.

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• People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

  

  Gay Talese
  • People
  • Different
  • Girl

• Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Money
  • News
  • Significant

• And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Serious
  • Chance
  • Lawyer

• My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • School
  • Business
  • Leader

• I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Would
  • Streets
  • Riots

• Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Long
  • Running
  • Lawyer

• I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Time
  • Long
  • Start

• I am a lawyer by profession.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Lawyer
  • Profession

• I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Different
  • Father
  • Smart

• Lasker mouthed, 'Trust him,' and Max sighed. Trust a lawyer? It flew in the face of his most cherished principles.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Trust
  • Lawyer

• A common and not necessarily apocryphal example portrays a solo practitioner starved for business in a small town. A second lawyer then arrives, and they both prosper.

  

  Lawyer
  • Business
  • Small
  • Lawyer

• One woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her. Another told me she wore Lanvin to face her husband's lawyer because she felt protected. If I can make men fall in love with women and if I can protect women, I think I can die peacefully.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• I have never wanted to be a politician, and I never had the desire until recently.

  

  Doug Hoffman
  • Desire

• The genesis of Donald Trump's relationship with Paul Manafort begins with Roy Cohn. That Roy Cohn: Joe McCarthy's heavy-lidded henchman, lawyer to the Genovese family. During the '70s, Trump and his father hired Cohn as their lawyer to defend the family against a housing discrimination suit.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Family
  • Father
  • Relationship

• He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Lawyer

• I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Different
  • Lawyer

• I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

  

  Lisa Scottoline
  • Lawyer
  • Divorce

• I was so intent as a young lawyer on beating the men at their own game that I didn't take any real maternity leave with my three younger children. It is only looking back that I realise I wasn't beating the system but reinforcing it.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Men
  • Children
  • Real

• My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.

  

  John Conyers
  • She
  • Friends
  • Husband

• As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.

  

  John Raleigh Mott
  • Life
  • World
  • Moving

• When I was a kid I got so much help from the Church. When I was a kid, our family was so poor they couldn't afford me to go to school, so there was an American family that send the money to the church to support my school fees.

  

  John Woo
  • Family
  • School
  • Money

• While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.

  

  John George Nicolay
  • Lawyer