Lawyer Quotes

A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.

When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.

A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.

How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.

Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.

I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal field when she was a practicing lawyer are unqualified.

Im a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

I was a lawyer and I have been married to a lawyer. I think one lawyer per household is plenty. It's a good quota for us.

You are telling me that your lawyer is a bloodsucking vampire?

Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.

As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.

I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.

Law..is too important to be left to the lawyers.

He addressed a black lawyer as "boy". That's why Jeff Sessions couldn't get through Senate confirmation process under the old rules followed by Democrats and Republicans.

They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.

My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'

I've been a military lawyer for 33 years. A member of al Qaeda or their affiliate group can be detained under a law of war as long as their threat to our nation without a trial.

I don't trust lawyers and journalists.

I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.

... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.

Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!

My family are not sporty - they are all doctors or lawyers.

In general, salary for land surveyors is often similar to that of a professional engineer or lawyer - surveyors are often "comfortable" but not "wealthy."

A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers.

I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school.

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.

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.

When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract."

I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.

Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.

I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.

I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.

I had no plans to be ever a lawyer, a crime fighter [in school].

The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

The Republican Primaries were quite interesting. The establishment had its candidate, [Mitt] Romney, a kind of a Wall Street lawyer and investor, and they wanted him in. But the base didn't want him.

When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.