#judges

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#boards #concept #days #had #i

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#figure #figure skating #half #judges #opinion

When will the Home Office realize that when judges retire, not only are they sent home for the rest of their lives, but the only people they have left to judge are their innocent wives.' 'So what are you recommending?'asked Alex as they walked into the drawing room. 'That judges should be shot on their seventieth birthday, and their wives granted a royal pardon and given their pensions by a grateful nation.' 'I may have come up with a more acceptable solution,' suggested Alex. 'Like what? Making it legal to assist judges' wives to commit suicide?' 'Something a little less drastic,' said Alex. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#judges #law #home

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

#judges #judiciary #liberty #our #property

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#characters #designed #formal #inquiry #judges

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#indifferent #judges #law #opinion #pressures

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#field #into #judges #large #lured

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#effectiveness #fail #job #judges #marketplace

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#common sense #given #judges #other #sense

There's always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks. ↗

— Shaun White

#always #big #improvement #judges #looking