Cases Quotes · Page 153

People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think…

— Rae Foley

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

— Larry David

The thing is, you don't get to know. It's not like you wake up with a bad feeling in your stomach. You…

— Lauren Oliver

Once you say you're going to have to tax them coming in, and our politicians never do this, because they have special…

— Donald Trump

Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart…

— William Harvey

In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The defenders of godism are now shrieking against the growing number of Atheists, and there is a call to the religious world…

— Chapman Cohen

Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I think that Yes' music is kind of on its own out there, and it goes through different chapters, and that involves…

— Geoff Downes

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

— John Cage

With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the…

— Thomas Jefferson

[About a conference on Systematic Biology] Many interesting statements were made that apply directly to the work of taxonomists. In some cases…

— Richard E. Blackwelder

I don't make promises in case I can't keep them. Sometimes you can't help it; things stop you.

— Glenda Millard

The same individuals who are doing primary research in the role of humans on the climate system are then permitted to lead…

— Roger A. Pielke

The best-case scenario here is that you make friends with a boy who's going to die." "Ah," said Calla, in a very,…

— Maggie Stiefvater

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father…

— Stephen Greenblatt

You cannot find, I believe, a case in the Bible where a man is converted without God's calling in some human agency--using…

— Dwight L. Moody

You can bet - a good chance of Hillary [Clinton], a good chance of [Donald] Trump - but not 100% in either case.

— Michael Bloomberg

There are exceptional loyalties and there are old fashion ideas about how you get loyalties, and after all the auditorium is full…

— Charlie Munger

I offer early Christianity as a case-study to show that the phenomena that we group under "religion(s)" comprise a somewhat artificial category,…

— Larry Hurtado

You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is…

— George Orwell

In an era when too many Americans are losing their jobs or working for less, trying to make ends meet, in close…

— Edward Kennedy

Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You’re the type of…

— Irvine Welsh

President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one…

— Tony Campolo

I met journalists that were on both sides of things. People who are young, enthusiastic and hard working journalists working on the…

— Rachel McAdams

I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to…

— Haruki Murakami

People act as though the hybrid could solve all of our problems - which is certainly not the case.

— Martin Winterkorn

(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of…

— Ernest Shackleton

I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.

— Steve Jobs

If you haven’t noticed the Canadians, when they need a big operation, when something happens, they come into the United States in…

— Donald Trump

We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two…

— Max Burns

We live in a country [USA] where the belief is that anyone can succeed, but for so many here, and for the…

— Joy Bryant

Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for…

— Michel Foucault

Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this…

— Anonymous

In my films, I hope there are a few moments where you feel almost illuminated, like in a state of ecstasy, stepping…

— Werner Herzog

I cannot, as you [Edward Weston] once proposed to me - solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem…

— Tina Modotti

Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of…

— Johnny Carson

In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and…

— Miguel de Cervantes