Court Quotes
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When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
Stan Smith
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There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
William Shakespeare
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When I warm up now though especially on center court there is usually music playing, so I don't really mess with music.
Karch Kiraly
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What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay? A breath one single gasp must puff away! A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade! A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade! A stream that silently but swiftly glides To meet eternity's immeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy? A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.
Alexander Brome
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If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
Arthur Ashe
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The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.
William O. Douglas
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Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed speak not a whispered word of them or they'll send the Talon for your head.
Scott Snyder
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All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.
William Pepper
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This is an illegal court and I won't attend it.
Ahmad Sa'adat
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We're not conceding anything. In fact, I think the court of appeals would render in our favor.
Gary Young Pavement
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This is your court and you possess the force to celebrate the trial and convict me on the basis of your lists of accusations, the public one and the secret one, and you can dictate a sentence prepared by the political and security apparatuses that are behind this trial. But I too possess a will obtained from the justice of our cause and the determination of our people to reject any decision from this 'kangaroo court'.
Ahmad Sa'adat
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I have a wonderful white coat I can wear on the court and also in New York for those rainy days...its lady-like and goes perfect with my personality.
Serena Williams
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The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
William Weld
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
Jonathan Swift
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The case is closed, Mr. Poldark. You will kindly step down.” “Otherwise,” said Dr. Halse, “we will have you committed for contempt of court.” Ross bowed slightly. “I can only assure you, sir, that such a committal would be a reading of my inmost thoughts.
Winston Grime
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The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.
Malachy McCourt
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It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.
William Rehnquist
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To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.
Honore de Balzac
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I welcome it because I asked at the very outset of this for a court of inquiry to bring disinterested fact-finders to bear upon these questions.
Gary Myers
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The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives, and if found guilty, behead him or send him here to black the Emperor's boots.
Joshua A. Norton
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Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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Sometimes it's hard to tell, but I feel like I'm definitely getting better. I'm learning more than I've ever learned. Now it's just a matter of time before I can incorporate that into what I'm doing on the court.
Eddy Curry
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I wanted to be the best player, so I thought in order for me to be the best player, I had to guard the best player on the court.
Andre Iguodala