Frases de John Grisham

“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”

“If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.”

“I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm.”

“judge not that ye be not judged”

“You live your life today,
Not tomorrow,
and certainly not yesterday.”

“Some people have more guts than brains.”

“I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.”

“Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.”

“Critics should find meaningful work.”

“I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.”

“Life is short.. Live to the fullest..”

“Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.”

“A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.”

“How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?”

“In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.”

“When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.”

“I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.”

“I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.”

“He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chickenshit, slimy little bastard… with a bright future in politics.”

“Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.”

“You need some coffee, don't you?"
"Yes, I've only had a gallon.”

“The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.”

“Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.”

“Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.”

“The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.”

“My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books.”

“Very few laws remain the same. Once enacted, they are likely to be studied, modified, amended, then often repealed altogether. This constant tinkering by judges and lawmakers is usually a good thing. Bad laws are weeded out. Weak laws are improved. Good laws are fine tuned.”