Cases Quotes · Page 118

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one…

— George MacDonald

I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's thriving. People are so happy…

— Chance the Rapper

Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of…

— Timothy Keller

In nearly all cases where machines have been downed, it was during a fight which had been very short, and the successful…

— Billy Bishop

I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary…

— Matthew Quick

Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of…

— Isaiah

The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present…

— Hollis Alpert

Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad…

— Simon Conway Morris

Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number…

— Millar Burrows

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between…

— R. Lee Ermey

Stephen Hawking implies that we are living in a Godless Universe or a Kingless Kingdom! In that case, Mankind must ascend the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth disputed whether John Kerry deserved some of his five medals. A large part of Kerry's defense…

— James Taranto

You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That…

— Eben Moglen

I'm afraid sometimes certain individual cases of defaults are unavoidable. What we should do is to step up monitoring, properly handle relevant…

— Li Keqiang

I had a choice: I could believe the lies of the devil, in which case I was on my way to suicide,…

— Angus Buchan

I worked as an actor for a few years before anything happened, so I'm used to going up for auditions, and then…

— Jim Sturgess

I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether…

— Rebecca Goldstein

I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.

— Adam Ant

In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

— Ali Liebegott

Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure…

— David Hume

I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced –…

— Anonymous

If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people…

— Nathan Myhrvold

God in His answers to prayer often says "Yes." Sometimes He says "Wait." Often He says "No." In any case, His will…

— Norman Vincent Peale

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

— George McGovern

It's not a case of us against them, it's a matter of melding all people's skills and resources to create a better…

— Lyn St. James

No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I think it was really crucial that the actress was age appropriate. There are films, such as An Education, where that wasn't…

— David Schwimmer

I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to…

— Isaac Asimov

Taxing the rich to fund the poorly managed government programs is simply a self-destructive decision: It does nothing more than move money…

— T. J. Rodgers

It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a…

— Soren Kierkegaard

We were ensconced as guests of the exclusive Beverly Hilton Hotel, an edifice so swank that the fire ax in the hall…

— Jack Paar

In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.

— Will Hobbs

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

— Henry Martyn

Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and…

— Aidan Chambers

By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By…

— Rabih Alameddine

What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence…

— Joe Paterno

Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

— Robert Altman

Where did you get the idea you aren't allowed to petition the universe with prayer? You are part of this universe, Liz.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Some dozens of years ago, there was a debate conducted between people insisting that "this loaf of bread must be redistributed," and…

— Zygmunt Bauman

The overwhelming bulk of the cosmos is deathly quiet. But here and there - on worlds where matter is thick and conditions…

— Seth Shostak