Court Quotes

• The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Country
  • Resolution
  • Alternatives

• Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

  

  Edwin Meese
  • Business
  • Government
  • Interpretation

• The profession is designed to help the court by making sure that the best possible arguments - not misleading arguments, not arguments that stretch a point, not arguments that hide precedents - but that the best possible arguments are presented, ... That's the business we're in. It's very much like if you were a doctor. Do you only cure people who, when they're cured, will lead their lives as you were going to lead them?

  

  Charles Fried
  • Business
  • Profession
  • Arguments

• I was just praying to get the ball up court and get a shot off.

  

  Billy Mitchell
  • Up
  • Praying
  • Ball

• I've made it eminently clear, anyone who walks away will be sued, ... It will take me 10 minutes to sign a complaint, we'll be in court.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Court
  • Complaint
  • Eminently

• Be wary, be wary, of the prosecutor who feels it necessary to deceive the court.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Court
  • Deceive
  • Prosecutor

• It's a really weird mindset to kind of try to take my mentality on the basketball court and bring it here on to the golf course. I don't want to have too high of expectations on, like, each hole, just try to enjoy the process, but hopefully get out to a good start tomorrow and be in the conversation and see what happens.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Basketball
  • Court
  • Mentality

• If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Respect
  • Principles
  • Measure

• A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that never wore real armor, and it is but of late that it has been discovered to have no real jurisdiction.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Real
  • Imaginary
  • Armor

• I believe Chairman Cummings will institute the process of subpoenaing, chairman Cummings is conferring with other members of House Oversight Committee right now, but so far I believe the overwhelming consensus is we should move forward with a subpoena.

  

  Steve Lynch Autograph
  • Court

• But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Majesty
  • Amorous

• It was important. We know they were a team that's been struggling all year and we just wanted to get this win tonight. Being that we got the one on their home court, we figured they were gonna try to come in and win one on ours and we did a good job of being focused and playing the game and finishing it out.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Good
  • Important
  • Home

• I am reminded of the old court jester who was supposed to entertain his king with interesting stories and antics. He looked at the king who was lolling on his throne, a drunken, filthy rascal, doffed his cap and bells, and said with a mock gesture of obeisance, “O king, be loyal to the royal within you.” And so I say to you young people today, remember your heritage, and be loyal to that royal lineage that you have as members of the church and kingdom of God on the earth.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • People
  • God
  • Remember

• And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Found
  • Prison
  • Turns

• ...an incorrect theory, even if it cannot be inhibited by any contradiction that would refute it, is none the less incorrect, just as a criminal policy is none the less criminal even if it cannot be inhibited by any court that would curb it.

  

  L. E. J. Brouwer
  • Court
  • Contradiction
  • Criminals

• The ball is entirely in his court. We really have no knowledge of where he is with the project, other than what we read in the papers.

  

  Dan Devine
  • Ball
  • Court
  • Entirely

• It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Church
  • Institutions
  • Anti-feminist

• It's not his demeanor we're voting on. We're voting on what his judicial philosophy will mean for the court,

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Philosophy
  • Judicial
  • Demeanor

• What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.

  

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • Important
  • Decision
  • Court

• I have much less confidence on the greens than I do on the court. Everybody asks like if putting is like shooting free throws. Like that six-footer for par or something like that. It has a very similar kind of mindset.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Confidence
  • Court
  • Greens

• He didn't repudiate what he said (in 1985), ... What he did say is that he has changed since that time over 20 years, and of course the court rulings have also been issued that established the precedent and reaffirmed Roe.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Time
  • Changes
  • Roe

• Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

  

  Rachel Hartman
  • Court
  • Composer
  • Procrastination

• I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Roles

• We are disappointed that the court has taken an unduly narrow view of its power and obligation to decide cases that come before it, ... Because the science is clear that global warming poses a real and inevitable environmental threat with grave human consequences, we will appeal this decision and continue to work on other fronts to demand action on this critical problem.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Work
  • Real
  • Power

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