#court

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #court




The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's "Nightline."


Alan Dershowitz


#last #longer #resort #supreme #supreme court

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.


Charlotte Brontë


#courtship #discord #disharmony #empowerment #gender

One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.


Anne Rice


#lestat-de-lioncourt #inspirational

Lestat: You're very anxious to be out of these rooms, aren't you? Why don't we simply get into bed together? I don't understand. David: You're serious? Lestat: Of course David: You do realize, that this is an absolutely magnificent body, don't you? I mean you aren't insensible to the fact that you've been deposited in a...a most impressive piece of young male flesh. Lestat: I looked it over well before the switch, remember? Why is it you don't want to.. David: You've been with a woman, haven't you? Lestat: I wish you hadn't read my mind. It's rude. Besides, what does that matter to you? David: A woman you loved. Lestat: I have always loved both men and women. David: That's a slightly different use of the word 'love.


Anne Rice


#lestat-de-lioncourt #louis-pointe-du-lac #tales-of-the-body-thief #vampire-chronicles #vampires

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.


William Rehnquist


#could #court #individual #institution #john

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.


Anne Bronte


#children #courted #dogs #else #everybody

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.


Alan Dershowitz


#administered #approval #case #court #done

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.


Larry Flynt


#buy #court #crowded #fire #former

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.


Meg Greenfield


#court #disaster #forces #gods #listening

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.


Dennis Hastert


#because #case #court #day #favorable