Luanne Rice Quotes

I loved being a judge, and sometimes I miss the power of the gavel, but this is a lot more fun.

If I disliked managing, I liked umpiring even less.

There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.

What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

We will just have to tell the House that they will have to accept our judgment and we cannot answer a great many questions that might be asked

We are not final because we are infallible; we are infallible because we are final.

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

There's no gray area in law enforcement. Evil exists in the world and it must be dealt with. And those on the side of good can feel righteous in their approach to eliminating evil. There's no ambiguity there.

It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.

Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called him to return to that rubbish heap from which he had wandered away, so that justice could be done.

The FBI director's probably spent a great deal of pressure to go either way - you know, to have said something, to not have said something. And, you know, he made the decision this was the right way to go. You know, I'm not going to second guess him without knowing all the information related to the investigation.

And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.

In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.

Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee-at least not all the time.

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Going to war is an easy decision.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

There are no wrong decisions ― only different ones.

I do believe in hell. Jesus spoke more about hell than heaven - I trust him as the authority, not you, me or anybody else. If hell is not real, then Jesus was a liar and God has a lot of explaining to do on His justice and things like that.

Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier.

To every reversal of people's soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal justice. "Tell me, according to what you judge and I'll tell you who you are." No axiom in politics is more certain than this.