Cases Quotes · Page 250

My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It would be naive of me to suggest that with Russia committed militarily, as it is, to supporting what in many cases…

— Barack Obama

A couple days before the stunts, if I'm doing something particularly dangerous, I will go over every worst-case scenario in my head,…

— Johnny Knoxville

What I see now is that even with the Islamists, who have been portraying themselves as the alternative to corruption and dictatorship…

— Tariq Ramadan

I should’ve been furious, but for some reason I wasn’t. Maybe because I knew he was telling the truth. Maybe because Voron…

— Ilona Andrews

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without…

— Anonymous

Is that what the wine is for? To help you think?" "Oh, the wine. The wine, Costis, is to help hide the…

— Megan Whalen Turner

I had a rope around my waist, and the rope was attached into the helicopter in case I fell off. And the…

— Haskell Wexler

The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends…

— William DeWitt Hyde

I can't force the direction that it's going to go without actually taking the time to make sure it's a great, great…

— Pusha T

A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is…

— William Osler

People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have…

— Bobby Bowden

One reason there are so many short-lived management fads is that their prescriptions were derived and advocated in precisely this way. So…

— Clayton Christensen

I consider myself sort of like a pseudo lawyer. Like, I'm convinced I can solve every case and argue my way.

— Sandra Bullock

European government is a clear expression I still use, you need time, but step by step, as in the Austrian case, the…

— Romano Prodi

In the case of [Donald] Trump, he was able to tell people that elites live in gated communities, where they have walls…

— Victor Davis Hanson

It has always been more difficult for a man to keep than to get; for, in the one case, fortune aids, which…

— Giambattista Basile

A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies"…

— Gerald Jonas

Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because…

— Wendy Mass

always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you'll have to eat them, you can swallow it well.

— Oprah Winfrey

The international community can't trust such a government. If the government of Iran wants the international community to believe in what it…

— Shirin Ebadi

What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago,…

— Noam Chomsky

Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases…

— Albert Einstein

We need to get good processes in place, we need to use them, and then we need to impose good sanctions that…

— Michele Landis Dauber

Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in…

— Garry Wills