The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.

So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.

If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.

Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.

But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.

It is strange how little harm bad codes do.

Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say.

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.

There are many experiments and a great deal of research that can be performed on the station that make a difference in our lives and we are committed to supporting this important vocation.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

My first vocation was dance.

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.