Cases Quotes · Page 244

The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different…

— Anonymous

In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and…

— George Polya

To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious…

— Jenny Holzer

As is always the case when peace takes precedence over liberty, neither is achieved.

— Bruce Herschensohn

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