Maxine Peake Quotes

The time has come for professional jurors.

The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.

Let them hate as long as they fear.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

When Shonda Rhimes calls, you feel like you get called into the principal's office a little bit, and you think, 'Maybe I better take that call.'

When I talk to another Afghan I am his or her equal and that moves me to tears.

I love being a judge, and I anticipate being a judge for the rest of my life.

The first day of 'Liberty,' I was hanging around waiting for Ford to come in. Everybody told me how tough he was and not to say anything, or he'd single you out and get on you the whole shoot. But as he walked in, I got up and saluted him.

I'm just an ordinary judge from California.

I've always found that if you listen to people you can find common ground.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness;--I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same fear and the same life...I could bury my face in them, in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me.

When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

I just hope we can find our way back to engaging with one another, arguing strongly with one another, and then going down and having a root beer together or something and - and having a good laugh about it as we work together for the best interests of the next generation of Americans who are going to inherit this country.

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.

People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.