#judges

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

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Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

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When will the Home Office realize that when judges retire, not only are they sent home for the rest of their lives, but the only people they have left to judge are their innocent wives.' 'So what are you recommending?'asked Alex as they walked into the drawing room. 'That judges should be shot on their seventieth birthday, and their wives granted a royal pardon and given their pensions by a grateful nation.' 'I may have come up with a more acceptable solution,' suggested Alex. 'Like what? Making it legal to assist judges' wives to commit suicide?' 'Something a little less drastic,' said Alex. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

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I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it. ↗

— William Hogarth

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A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds. ↗

— David Horowitz

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We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise. ↗

— Robert Duncan

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions. ↗

— Helen Garner

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