Top 1200 Judge And Jury Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

The talent God gave me is beautiful and wonderful, but it is difficult because you are always facing other people keen to judge you. There are few people with such talent, so there are few able to judge what I am doing.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose; we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit.

I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

As a director and an actor, it is very difficult to say "this person was better than another person." I judge by chemistry of the actors but it is difficult being a judge. I will never bash any of the actors.

I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

We judge ourselves mostly by our intentions, but others judge us mostly by our actions.

I still get a little nervous before performing. You don't want to forget a lyric; you don't want to make a mistake. I still get butterflies. You can try to judge an audience, but you can only really judge things by the applause.

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.

In the entertainment industry women are often judged. They judge bigger women, they judge black women, and older women too. We just don't do that in drag. Drag is open to everyone, regardless of gender, body shape or age.

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

If one of my own makes a mistake, they judge us all. Tomorrow, if a white man in Africa makes a mistake, we should judge all white people? No!

Our own personal salvation is to say, "I'm not going to judge myself, or let other people judge me, by my economic worth." We can't, obviously, control how other people will judge us, but - Life's too short to worry about those things. We can't control those things, but we can control how we feel about ourselves. And we work towards that. To say, "My life has been a success. Even if my bank account doesn't indicate it."

The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way.

I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we're wearing or how powerful or rich we are, they judge us in terms of sensitivity, consistency, and patience. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we, as humans, then strive to maintain.

Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

You really don't want to go to court and have the judge decide based on whether or not they're your friend, because you don't want to be thinking that the (judge's) friend is on the other side (of the court case).

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.

The fact that I am constantly immersed in the act of legal writing and editing has made me a better and more efficient creative writer and editor. In the end, lawyers need to tell compelling stories when they write a brief or other legal argument. A successful lawyer understands that the judge is merely a person who is going to read that brief, which should articulate a compelling reason for the judge to rule in that lawyer's favor. In other words, a legal advocate needs to get the judge to care. That's not dissimilar to what a creative writer does.

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.

Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.

The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.

"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged."

Umm... I don't judge my relationship with Puff or Bad Boy according to other people or past artists. At the end of the day, you are in charge of your career, and you can't depend on no man to do anything for you. I've learned to judge relationships with a person on myself and that person, not what they have done with previous people.

The good guys in my movies mind their own business, and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous; they judge other people without knowing the whole story. They want all the attention, and they're mean spirited.

There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.

People love to judge, as long as they have somebody else to judge they don't give in and answer with hate would drag me down, it would simply put me into the same position they are, I don't believe that their position is an enviable one!

You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This means you can judge other people's knowledge but you cannot judge their being. You can see in them only as much as you have in yourself. But people always make the mistake of thinking they can judge other people's being. In reality, if they wish to meet and understand people of a higher development than themselves they must work with the aim of changing their being.

Before we announced Judge Merric Garland, people were saying they would not even deign to meet with him. And we're also aware that early in the week, when the Congress comes back, in fact, Senator Collins, the Republican from Maine, has agreed to meet with Judge Garland up in the Senate.

I played the track 'Exciter' backwards and suggested to the judge that what he'd heard was, 'I asked her for a peppermint. I asked her to get me one'. When the judge heard it, his eyes lit up. It was as if he realized how ridiculous the whole thing was.

There's no cap on success. The jury stays out till you take your last breath.

When you see a lawyer trying to pick a smart jury, you know he's got a strong case.

Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent.

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

All the judges watched Judge Wapner. All America, at one point or another, watched Judge Wapner.

The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.

Judge me on how I play football, or judge me on when you meet me.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.

Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.

The best jury of your peers that you’ll ever find is…well, you. Only you know what you’re capable of and what you want to be.

When you analyze all the data, there is a warming trend according to science. But the jury is out on the degree of how much is manmade.

I've had something like seven films at Sundance, one of which won the Grand Jury Prize.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems.