Bleak House Lawyer Quotes & Sayings

Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States. — Calvin Trillin

And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall. — D.H. Lawrence

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord. — Earl Nightingale

Fans don't boo nobodies. — Reggie Jackson

I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fall down. ~ Clete — James Lee Burke

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that. — Kate Millett

So the bad news is that family breakdown is causing a host of societal and economic ills. But the good news is that, like any cause and effect, those ills can be reversed if what is causing them is changed. Inequities are resolved by living correct principles and values. Brothers and sisters, the most important cause of our lifetime is our families. If we will devote ourselves to this cause, we will improve every other aspect of our lives and will become, as a people and as a church, an example and a beacon for all the peoples of the earth. — M. Russell Ballard

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. — Alan Watts

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. — Ambrose Bierce

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. — Samuel Adams

Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other. — Craig McDonald

Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. — Jim Jarmusch