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  • I feel so blessed to have had the chance to do this job [ U.S. Solicitor General] in this moment in our history. It's been an incredible thing.

    Jobs   Blessed   Chance  
    Source: www.slate.com
  • Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

    Law   Wish   Firsts  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.744, e-artnow
  • It happens every once in awhile at the federal level when the solicitor general, on behalf of the U.S., will confess error or decline to defend a law. I don't know what is going through the [Obama] administration's thought process on 'don't ask, don't tell.' It would be appropriate for them to say 'the law has been deemed unconstitutional, we are not going to seek further review of that.'

    Errors   Law   Would Be  
  • To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.

    "Nominations For Associate Attorney General And Solicitor General". Hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, votesmart.org. February 10, 2009.
  • I need not ask whether I may call on Him or not, for that word 'Whosoever' is a very wide and comprehensive one...My case is urgent, and I do not see how I am to be delivered; but this is no business of mine. He who makes the promise will find ways and means of keeping it. It is mine to obey His commands; it is not mine to direct His counsels. I am His servant, not His solicitor. I call upon Him, and He will deliver.

    Mean   Promise   Needs  
  • And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

    Men   Liberty   Thieves  
  • Frankly, the people probably most interested in having computer lists on disk are junk mail vendors and solicitors.

    People   Junk   Mail  
  • What you see is what you get.

    "Character: Geraldine". "Flip", TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1970-1974.
  • I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as I thought, logical, coherent, complete. Second was the one actually presented-interrupted, incoherent, disjointed, disappointing. The third was the utterly devastating argument that I thought of after going to bed that night.

    Night   Law   Bed  
    Lecture before State Bar of California, San Francisco, Cal., 23 Aug. 1951
  • A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.

    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.184, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • What you see is what you see.

    Stephanie Rosenthal, Ad Reinhardt, Haus der Kunst München, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella (2006). “Black paintings”
  • Ministers must not be able to set rules governing solicitors on a whim, to suit their own requirements.

  • Donald Verrilli has argued 37 cases in five years on behalf of the [Barak] Obama administration. Many of them turned out to be truly landmark cases. He is the seventh-longest-serving solicitor general in American history.

    Source: www.slate.com
  • In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.

    Writing   Garden   Order  
    Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.164, David R. Godine Publisher
  • A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.

    Advice   Matter   Want  
    'Lothair' (1870) ch. 27
  • Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

    Cities   Purpose   Limits  
  • It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States.

    Jobs   People   Balance  
  • You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

    Book   Names   Facts  
    Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905) "The Norwood Builder"
  • A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.

    Evil   Needs   Tales  
  • Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.

    1983 Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1989).
  • I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate, i spent five and a half years as the solicitor-general of Texas, the chief lawyer for the state of Texas in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

    Texas   Years   Community  
  • Scientology 1970 is being planned on a religious organization basis throughout the world. This will not upset in any way the usual activities of any organization. It is entirely a matter for accountants and solicitors.

  • Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.

    Law   Equity   Solicitors  
    Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.67
  • For most practical purposes Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians, and courtesans.

    Two   People   Thieves  
    Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.127, Hachette UK
  • I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

  • When we're not a party, we sometimes file as amicus, as friend of the court, 25, 30 times a term, sometimes more. And in each of those cases, we've got to decide what position the government's going to take. And that is the solicitor general's job to make that decision.

    Jobs   Party   Government  
    "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.
  • The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty important position.

  • There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a solicitor in the little town of X"; development as "One day Mrs Fortescue told him she was about to leave him for another man"; and drama as "You will do nothing of the kind," he said.

    Drama   Men   One Day  
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