Top 1200 Law School Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.

I think my biggest mistake was deciding not to go to law school directly after I graduated from college.

I had gone to law school thinking that I would do something in the service of black people.

I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.

Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school.

It's a strange thing, we think that law brings order. Law doesn't. How do we know that law does not bring order? Look around us. We live under the rule of law. Notice how much order we have?

She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.

When I was a kid, I thought I would be an entrepreneur and maybe at some point go into law school.

Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether you go to prep school or public school or ghetto school or rich suburban school. And actually, it spun off from a Kurt Vonnegut quote.

I just wanted to begin by mentioning that the nominee for secretary of the department of labor will be Mr. Alex Acosta. He has a law degree from Harvard Law School, great student. Former clerk for Justice Samuel Alito. He has had a tremendous career. He's a member and has been a member of the National Labor Relations Board and has been through Senate confirmation three times, confirmed. I have wished him the best.

Civil disobedience is, in fact, a conservative idea, a few steps short of overt rebellion. It honors the rule of law by insisting on good law and rejecting bad law.

I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.

I used to read voraciously while in school and cinema was always a fascination. Law was the safe backup plan.

I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.

There was a school in Chicago called the School of Design. This was started by [Laszló] Moholy-Nagy, and it was a wonderful school, but we [with Alix MacKenzie] didn't go to that school. We did have friends who went to that school and we would visit there often, and I'm sure it pushed me in my painting direction very strongly just by association.

A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.

When I went to law school, I had Roger Fisher for Civil Procedure. I never heard anything about negotiations.

I've often thought that when something is hard for you, whether it's going to law school or anything else that challenges you, that's probably what you should do.

When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.

I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.

The health care law's individual mandate forces nearly all individuals to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. The mandate cannot be severed from the rest of the law because it is the primary mechanism through which the law's changes are supported. Without the mandate, the law collapses.

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

When I was 23 and about to go to law school, I thought I'd spend the summer writing a novel.

Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.

The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.

We just totally have abandoned reality here, and the Democrats have created a new reality that is not real whatsoever that people have bought into and accepted, to the point now where the upholding of current law is what's considered lawless and partisan and political, and [Barak] Obama attempting to skirt the law and ignore the law is what people think is the law!

The penal code deals with things like theft, false testimony, adultery, fornication, etc. and then there's the law of the state, the law of the individual and the law of the public.

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.

I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.

The first day I went to law school, I realized I'd made a huge mistake. It was nothing like what I thought.

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.

I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it.

There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost.

Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth.

In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle of the law. What is human warfare but just this, - an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Men make an arbitrary code, and, because it is not right, they try to make it prevail by might. The moral law does not want any champion. Its asserters do not go to war. It was never infringed with impunity. It is inconsistent to decry war and maintain law, for if there were no need of war there would be no need of law.

I do not agree with the use of 'signing statements' to effectively act as a line-item veto, except when the President believes a law or a provision within a law is unconstitutional.In general, if a President signs a law, they are committing themselves to enforcing it. If they don't believe it should become a law, they should veto it.

I probably can win a prize for the most ways to use a Harvard Law School degree because of all the things I'm doing.

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

I was a journalism major in college, went to law school, and became a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. I loved it and was with the Department of Justice for years.

My dad is now a federal judge, but when he started off, he graduated from the top law school in Texas and couldn't get a job.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

Evolution is the Law of Life Number is the Law of the Universe Unity is the Law of God

I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.

I was attracted to law school because I believed it would help me prepare for a career in the real world.

I was getting in trouble at school. I wasn't happy. The school was very much a school that created people for commerce and it wasn't an arty school.

I tried to talk to the graduates who haven't figured what they're going to do next. The kids who are heading in medical school or law school, they've got pretty much figured where they're headed in life. But there are so many kids out there, that are just going, they're still kids. They've always been promoted from grade to grade.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

I took the LSAT the day 'Jersey Shore' premiered, and after that I was too busy to go to law school.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

After graduating from Brown, I went to law school and became a corporate lawyer in New York City.

The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote.

For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how to orbit a problem and to ask myself hard questions and to be asked hard questions. Hope that I could be of some use, to be part of the greater good - to make the world a little bit better.

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

Both law and comedy are heavily focused on thought and viewing all angles. To write a good joke, you have to look at a premise every way possible. And with a good legal argument, you have to see all sides to get the best line of argument for your client. Law school made me a better comic, and comedy has made me a better public speaker.

I graduated from college in 2002, and then I went to law school at St. Thomas University in Miami in 2004.

One of the things about being a law student is that the academic discipline of law is very often removed from the practical reality of law. How to complain, who to complain to, and whether or not you even need to invoke the law is very different in the real world from how it's examined in the lecture theatre.