William Gurnall Quotes
For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.
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Court proceedings, except for certain limited situations, are open to the public. This is for the protection of the accused, to be certain to ascertain that there is a fair trial.
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Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son!
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
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CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.
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There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.
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In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
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I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.
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The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.
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I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!
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I'm always on the court with my dad.
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When they court announcers say, 'This is the world No. 2,' it just doesn't sound right to me because either I'm No. 1 or I'm a grand slam champion. I'm not world No. 2. I just don't like the ring of it when I'm introduced on court because I've been up there for so, so long.
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Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.
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Love, which is lust, is the Lamp in the Tomb. Love, which is lust, is the Call from the Gloom. Love, which is lust, is the Main of Desire. Love, which is lust, is the Centric Fire. So man and woman will keep their trust, Till the very Springs of the Sea run dust. Yea, each with the other will lose and win, Till the very Sides of the Grave fall in. For the strife of Love's the abysmal strife, And the word of Love is the Word of Life. And they that go with the Word unsaid, Though they seem of the living, are damned and dead.
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To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary.
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I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.
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For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.
