Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.
In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.
You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.
Some people have more guts than brains.
If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.
I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.
I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.
Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.
Critics should find meaningful work.
I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.
A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.
Life is short..Live to the fullest..
Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.
How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?
I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.
He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chicken shit, slimy, little bastard with a bright future in politics.
I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.
In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.
When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.
Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.
You need some coffee, don't you?" "Yes, I've only had a gallon.
The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.
You advised him not to get a lawyer, giving as one of your reasons the opinion that lawyers are a pain in the ass. Gentlemen, the pain is here. -Reggie Love
Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.
Judge not that ye be not judged
Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.
Like every false rumor, it gained credibility while being repeated, and before long it was practically a fact.
Quitting is not the answer. Life is not fair, and you can't quit every time something unfair happens to you.
The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.
I am currently reading, "The Broker" by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better
Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.
He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all.
It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.
She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.
Life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.
I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.
Ethics are determined by what they catch you doing. If you don’t get caught, then you haven’t violated any ethics.
Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.
You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.
There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.
The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk that maybe a trace of mismanagement could in any way have contributed to the bankruptcy.
If you're not nervous, son, then something is wrong.
They found Seth Hubbard in the general area where he had promised to be, though not exactly in the condition expected. He was at the end of a rope, six feet off the ground and twisting slightly in the wind.
Once again, I was reminded that Tally was the prettiest girl I'd ever met, and when she smiled at me my mind went blank. Once you've seen a pretty girl naked, you feel a certain attachment to her.
You wired the kid," Truemann said meekly to no one in particular. "Why not? No crime. You're the FBI, remember. You boys run more wire than AT&T."[Reggie Love]
Poverty is a great equalizer
We all have our little secrets, and as long as they're harmless, who really cares? With time, the secrets often go away and things don't matter anymore.
Anyone can cook a trout. The real art is in hooking the damned thing.
Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done.
The theory was simple: If a man had enough sense to accumulate a bunch of cash, then he would certainly make a worthy U.S senator.
Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected.
I'm here to tell you, separate was never equal.
Never trust a white person black people don’t like.
Once again I had asked an innocent question, and because of it, I was banished from the conversation.
Love yourself,.,.,.,for the sake of your better future
Dear Mrs. Black: On seven prior occasions this company has denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth and final time. You must be stupid, stupid stupid, stupid!
The sky had cleared, and now the sun was overhead, already baking the wet ground so that you could see the humidity drifting lazily above the cotton stalks.
We learned after the first semester in law school that it's best never to discuss exams. If notes are compared afterwards, you become painfully aware of things you missed.
Good God, Keith." "Yes, I've talked to Him too and I'm still waiting on his Guidance...
I have a plan, one I've been plotting for years now. It is my only way out.
Make friends with fear, Lucien always said, because it will not go away, and it will destroy you if left uncontrolled.
Today was the worst day of his professional life, but tomorrow would be better.
No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete.
My children know nothing of Christmas. They have so little, and want so little, it makes me feel guilty for the mindless materialism of our culture.
What would his friends think? The Honorable Hatlee Beech, federal judge, writing prose like a faggot, extorting money out of innocent people.
It wouldn't pay to get fresh with a missionary.
He'd had his career, his triumphs. Success had brought him nothing but misery; he couldn't handle it. Success had thrown him in the gutter
He counts votes before he decides what to have for breakfast.
I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.
Fear was good; fear was an ally; that every lawyer was afraid when he stood before a new jury and presented his case. It was okay to be afraid – just don’t show it.
Appalachia was Appalachia, regardless of boundaries someone had set an eternity ago. A land of breathtaking beauty, of steep hills and rolling mountains
How often would I have the chance to see a pretty girl bathing? I could recall no specific prohibition from the church or the Scriptures, though I knew it was wrong. But maybe it wasn't terribly sinful.
We were invincible because we were eighteen and stupid.
You know, I have a very bad reputation.
He's busy taking the fifth
Lucien had taught him that fear was good; fear was an ally; that every lawyer was afraid when he stood before a new jury and presented his case. It was okay to be afraid – just don’t show it.
And I'm sure Theo can always find her.
Don't ever get involved in politics, Theo. It's a dirty game.
I am motivated by thoughts of my sorrowful little client and the screwing that he got. I'm the only lawyer Donny Ray has, and it will take much more than paper to slow me down.
Once you've seen a pretty girl naked, you feel a certain attachment to her.
You’re old. You’re senile. You’re too calm about this. Something must be wrong…” “Wonderful. I’ll pull out my hair and chase butterflies around the room.
They say a woman marries a man with the belief she can change him, and she can’t. A man marries a woman with the belief that she won’t change, and she does.
Every company of a certain size must have committed egregious sins to succeed in the cutthroat world of Western capitalism.
I had never seen a woman's breasts before, and I doubted if any seven-year-old boy in Craighead County had. Maybe some kid had stumbled upon his mother, but I was certain no boy my age had never had this view.
In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.
In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.
It's mafia,Mitch and illegal as hell.
A man shrewd enough and clever enough to amass such a fortune in ten years does not throw together
I've loved you all my life. Even before we met. Part of it wasn't even you. It was just a promise of you.
When you have no future, you live in the past.
God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed…” -Judge Frank Howell Seay
But such a cheap shot from a sibling can never be left alone.
After a leisurely slide into second, Joe bounced to his feet, looked at Marichal, shrugged, smiled, and spread his arms as if to say, "You throw at me, I'll make you pay.
And every defendant, regardless of how despicable the person or his crime, is entitled to a lawyer. Most laymen don’t understand this and don’t care. I don’t care either. This is my job.
If a prosecutor gets caught cheating, he either gets reelected or elevated to the bench. Our system never holds a bad prosecutor accountable.
Hubbard obtained the land from Sylvester’s widow.
The relief came from the sudden realization that she had just been freed from a job she despised.
This was Mississippi, where for years whites shot blacks for any reason or no reason and no one cared; where whites raped blacks and it was considered sport; where blacks were hanged for fighting back.
You just don’t understand men, Samantha. Looking is automatic and it’s harmless. We all look. Come on.
I thought they were honest.’ ‘They are, but they’re bankers, remember.
