Court Quotes

A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him.

No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

She [Dokic] left the court with a face as long as thunder.

When I'm on the court, I feel like I'm in my element.

I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called.

Every Saint belongs to the court of the Queen of All Saints.

Every time I step on the court I want to be up there with the best.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.

The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues.

I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let's just get out of this mess.

I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland.

A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.

Being afraid on the court, means you're not confident of your skills

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.

The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.

In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children.

If I would go out against some of these players and see them as their ranking, then I probably would have already lost before I even stepped on the court.

I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.

Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes.

I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!

I'm not paid to be a role model. I'm paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court.

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

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.

Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one.

A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.

If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases.

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid.

Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law.

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

Insults are the business of the court.

The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.

I was surprised how I was feeling on the court because I was focused only on the point and on the game and not on the final.

Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

I'm ready to forgive him for the desire to be a king, but not for wanting to have 23 million court jesters.

There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

Sports taught me how to compete on the court, and taught me how to compete in life. Sports and life run parallel with one another.

Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.

Chance favors only those who court her.

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

I play because I have fun, if I don't have fun on the court, there is something wrong. I am just a 19 year old boy that likes to do what he likes, nothing else.

Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.

Channel 4 are a great bunch of people to work with and the crew are lovely. Working at ITV was like being in the court of Caligula.

The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.