Court Quotes

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

Regarding Her Majesty, Queen Levana, has she or any of the Lunar court commented on the escape of the convict?" Kai's jaw tensed. "Oh, she's had a thing or two to say about it.

It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.

The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion.

To add to the confusion, some of the court's decisions involved multiple concurrences and dissents, making it hard even for lawyers and judges to figure out what the law is and why.

That's the fundamental question. Do we have a check and balance system? Do we have three equal branches or do we have one supreme branch, not just the Supreme Court? That's the fundamental question.

Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court.

The Court should never be influenced by the weather of the day but inevitably they will be influenced by the climate of the era.

The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.

I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.

I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.

Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court, where good people are at their worst.

If there was more courting in marriage, there'd be fewer marriages in court. Date your mate. Today.

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

They've come to overthrow the court, sir!

My problem is trying to find the desire to fight and be on the court ready to fight. For a few weeks, I haven't felt like I wanted to be on the court. That's the problem.

There's so much that I want to do. I feel like I'm the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he's bigger as a businessman.

My father was a small claims court jester.

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.

The Argentineans practice on the court for two hours a day, then they must practice in front of a mirror for two more hour saying 'I'm not guilty.'

Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.

I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?

I've been called worse on the basketball court.

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

Say good-bye to a Supreme Court that is truly open and balanced and looking out for the American people. Instead the Republicans just want to capture a right-wing court for another whole generation.

The Supreme Court is divided almost in half on the decisions. Talk about an international court. How would we ever agree with a lot of foreigners when we can't even agree among our own judges?

I dont want to be a point guard, or a two-guard, I want people to think of me as "creative", I just want to create on the court.

My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict.

Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

They had a big court battle over who got to keep me. Mom won; she made me live with Dad.

Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.

Looks like he's dressed for court.

The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties.

Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.

The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

When I lose a match, I know that I lose on the court and not in life.

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

Never shake hands with colleagues in court; the customers think you're making deals.

When the court that handpicked you to be president tells you you've overstepped your bounds, you've overstepped your bounds.

Why will our elections be universal?Because all citizens, excluding those deprived of vote by court, will have the right to vote and the right to be elected.

The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.