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

• There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.

  

  Jason Segel
  • School
  • High
  • Period

• Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Politicians
  • Noise
  • General

• When you're on Earth, if you go to the top of a mountain, the stars look much brighter than they do at sea level. And because the space shuttle is above Earth's atmosphere, it's like being on a very, very high mountain. So they look brighter, but not bigger.

  

  Sally Ride
  • High
  • Earth
  • Space

• It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'

  

  Neale Donald Walsch
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

  

  Ricardo Lagos
  • Children
  • Innocent
  • Obligation

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

  

  John George Nicolay
  • Lawyer