{"author":"John Grisham","author_id":"John+Grisham","total_quotes":35,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"John Grisham","tags":["inspirational-life"],"id":13917,"author_id":"John+Grisham"},{"text":"When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.","author":"John Grisham","tags":["lying","perjury"],"id":16846,"author_id":"John+Grisham"},{"text":"Life on the run was filled with dreams, some at night during sleep, real dreams, and some when the mind was awake but drifting. Most were terrifying, the nightmares of the shadows growing bolder and larger. Others were pleasant wishes of a rosy future, free of the past. These were rare, Patrick had learned. Life on the run was life in the past. There was no closure.","author":"John Grisham","tags":["life-lessons","past"],"id":29933,"author_id":"John+Grisham"},{"text":"The president had shifted to the 'we' mode now, something he invariably did when a potentially unpopular decision was at hand. For the easy ones, it was always 'I.' When he needed a crutch, and especially when he would need someone to blame, he opened up the decisionmaking process and included Critz.","author":"John Grisham","tags":["leadership"],"id":32349,"author_id":"John+Grisham"},{"text":"Americans no longer experience vacations. They simply Sony them so they can ignore them for the rest of the year.","author":"John Grisham","tags":["americans","sony","technology","vacation","video"],"id":54602,"author_id":"John+Grisham"},{"text":"Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully and slowly so that even you will understand it. If I was the sheriff, I would not have arrested him. If I was on the grand jury, I would not have indicted him. If I was the judge, I would not try him. If I was the D.A., I would not prosecute him. If I was on the trial jury, I would vote to give him a key to the city, a plaque to hang on his wall, and I would send him home to his family. And, Mr. Buckley, if my daughter is ever raped, I hope I have the guts to do what he did.","author":"John Grisham","tags":["justice","murder","rape","retribution","time-to-kill","vigilante-justice"],"id":56081,"author_id":"John+Grisham"},{"text":"Her father had learned only one thing in prison. Not humility, nor patience, nor understanding...Marshall Kofer had learned to listen, at least to his daughter'.","author":"John Grisham","tags":["father","listening"],"id":74647,"author_id":"John+Grisham"},{"text":"Okay, let’s pretend to be friends. Just two friends having dinner.” “That doesn’t work in the South. A male friend cannot have dinner with a female friend if the male friend has a wife. It just doesn’t work down here.” “Why not?” “Because men don’t have female friends. No way. I don’t know of a single man in the entire South who is married and has a female friend. I think it goes back to the Civil War.” “I think it goes back to the Dark Ages. Why are Southern women so jealous?” “Because that’s the way we’ve trained them. They learned from us. If my wife met a male friend for lunch or dinner, I’d tear his head off and file for divorce. She learned it from me.” “That makes absolutely no sense.” “Of course it doesn’t.” “Your wife has no male friends?” “None that I know of. If you learn of any, let me know.” “And you have no female friends?” “Why would I want female friends? They can’t talk about football, or duck hunting, or politics, or lawsuits, or anything that I want to talk about. They talk about kids, clothes, recipes, coupons, furniture, stuff I know nothing about. No, I don’t have any female friends. Don’t want any.” “That’s what I love about the South. The people are so tolerant.” “Thank you.","author":"John Grisham","tags":["friends","grisham","men-and-women","the-south"],"id":81368,"author_id":"John+Grisham"},{"text":"If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.","author":"John Grisham","tags":["stupidity"],"id":96021,"author_id":"John+Grisham"},{"text":"As a society, we adhere to the belief in a fair trial for a person accused of a serious crime, but some of us struggle when it comes to the business of providing a competent lawyer to guarantee said fair trial. Lawyers like me live with the question “But how do you represent such scum?”I offer a quick “Someone has to” as I walk away.Do we really want fair trials? No, we do not. We want justice, and quickly. And justice is whatever we deem it to be on a case-by-case basis.It’s just as well that we don’t believe in fair trials because we damned sure don’t have them. The presumption of innocence is now the presumption of guilt. The burden of proof is a travesty because the proof is often lies. Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt means if he probably did it, then let’s get him off the streets.","author":"John Grisham","tags":["justice","law","lawyer","presumption-of-innocence","reasonable-doubt","trial"],"id":130066,"author_id":"John+Grisham"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}