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Lawyers Quotes

When we did ‘Thirtysomething,’ television was either about doctors, lawyers, or cops.

– Edward Zwick

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.

– Floyd Abrams

We’re lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.

– David Boies

We simply have to reign in the piggish people and money-hungry lawyers who chase every ambulance they see and expect companies and individuals to pay for everything that goes wrong.

– Mike Gallagher

Whistleblowers are typically rendered incommunicado, either because they’re in hiding, or advised by their lawyers to stay silent, or imprisoned. As a result, the public hears only about them, but never from them, which makes their demonization virtually inevitable.

– Glenn Greenwald

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

Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.

– Dick Cavett

With a face like this, there aren’t a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I’ve got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that’s what I’ve been doing for the past thirty years.

– M. C. Gainey

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

– David Mellor

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

– David Crosby

That’s the thing about us lawyers – if at all possible, we will consume each other.

– Christopher Darden

There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion’s share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.

– Dennis Hastert

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They’re remembered by the arts.

– Eli Broad

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

– George Savile

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

– Gavin Rossdale

‘Suits’ fans. I’ve never met a more diverse audience: across gender, race, class. It’s incredible. People who are high-powered lawyers to doormen. A Chinese immigrant cable installer – who barely spoke English – loves ‘Suits!’

– David Costabile

There aren’t more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren’t more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

– Dorothy Fields

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

– Marion Bartoli

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

– Garry Trudeau

For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.

– Naftali Bennett

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

– Felix Frankfurter

It is a different genre – a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.

– Chi McBride

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.

– Margaret Mitchell

Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.

– Cynthia Payne

I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.

– Nadia Comaneci

The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla’s lawyers.

– Paul Watson

I love lawyers. And I like to talk to lawyers, and I like to engage in a spirited discussion with lawyers.

– Janet Reno

Jury instructions are so numerous and complex, it’s a wonder jurors ever wade through them. And so it should come as no surprise that they can sometimes get stuck along the way. The instruction on circumstantial evidence is confusing even to lawyers. And reasonable doubt? That’s the hardest, most elusive one of all.

– Marcia Clark

A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it’s not my fault I like to eat.

– Neil Cavuto

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

– Monica Bellucci

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