Lawyer Quotes - page 5

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people. (Kenneth Anger)
Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian. View quote
Levon Helm
I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue. View quote
Lexa Doig
I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I dont know why. View quote
Louis Garrel
Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer. View quote
Luc Ferrari
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns. View quote
Marguerite Young
I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out. View quote
Max Walker
When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.' View quote
Maz Jobrani
I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it. View quote
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business. View quote
Robert Mondavi
My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor. (Steve Case)
If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did. View quote
Steve Guttenberg
I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didn't want to be either one. View quote
Suheir Hammad
I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these. View quote
Tom Glazer
I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up. View quote
William Petersen
When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. View quote
Warren Christopher
On all occasions of trial He has saved me. I know that the phrase 'God saved me' has a deeper meaning for me today, and still I feel that I have not yet grasped its entire meaning. Only richer experience can help me to a fuller understanding. But in all my trials - of a spiritual nature, as a lawyer, in conducting institutions, and in politics - I can say that God saved me. When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee', I experience that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
My joy was boundless. I had learnt the true practice of law. I had learnt to find out the better side of human nature and to enter men's hearts. I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby - not even money, certainly not my soul. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures. View quote
Sidney Sheldon
A lawyer must be told things frankly; then it's up to us to muddle them up. View quote
Alessandro Manzoni
Many words have no legal meaning. Others have a legal meaning very unlike their ordinary meaning. For example, the word 'daffydown-dilly.' It is a criminal libel to call a lawyer a daffy-down-dilly. Ha! Yes, I advise you never to do such a thing. No, I certainly advise you never to do it. (Dorothy L. Sayers)
But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance. View quote
William Julius Wilson
The point is, your request for a lawyer comes about two hundred years too late to be meaningful. The verbalisms lag behind the facts. Nevertheless, you shall have a lawyer-or a lollipop, whichever you prefer, after I am through questioning you. If I were you, I'd take the lollipop. More nourishing. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Going to dance at my wake?” "I don't dance,” the lawyer answered, "but you tempt me to learn. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Now we got a lawyer, we got civilization, which I understand to mean that a man has a chance to get rich without working. View quote
Sinclair Lewis