| Anna Quindlen |  The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
Anna Quindlen |
| Anne Hutchinson | I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.
Anne Hutchinson |
| Anne Hutchinson | If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
Anne Hutchinson |
| announces | Justice John Paul Stevens, the oldest member of the US Supreme Court, announces he is to retire later this year. |
| Anthony Kennedy | Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.
Anthony Kennedy |
| Antonin Scalia | The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.
Antonin Scalia |
| anyhow | However, in the morning I determined to have a look at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for Pope's Court. |
| anymore | I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.
John Ashcroft
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| appeal | A British court rejects an appeal by Star Wars film-makers to stop a UK designer recreating Stormtrooper costumes. |
| appeal | A British grandmother on death row in Texas is lodging a last-ditch appeal with the US Supreme Court. |
| appeal | An international court rejects an appeal by former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to have his war crimes trial delayed. |
| appeal | Burma's Supreme Court hears a last appeal against the extended house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. |
| appear | The Brazilian rancher accused of plotting the murder of American nun Dorothy Stang is to appear in court for a retrial. |
| approach | A series of disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. |
| Arthur Ashe | If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
Arthur Ashe |
| Arthur E. Waite | If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
Arthur E. Waite |
| Arthur Hertzberg | But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.
Arthur Hertzberg |
| attempts | 'I've so often read in the newspapers, at the end of trials, "There was some attempts at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the court," and I never understood what it meant till now.' |
| Augusten Burroughs | With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.
Augusten Burroughs |
| Augustus Baldwin Longstreet | During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet |
