Cases Quotes · Page 33

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this…

— Charles R. Schwab

There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find A woman's at the bottom. [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua…

— Juvenal

I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

— Charlie Brooker

Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases…

— Catherine Crier

And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind…

— Janet Evanovich

When people hear the word “beautiful”, they expect something to be pretty. And for me that's not always necessarily the case, y'know.

— Brian Molko

Sarah Palin's whole family got into a drunken public fistfight. Something police are calling a 'tragic case of trash-on-trash violence.'

— Bill Maher

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not…

— Henry John Stephen Smith

Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others…

— William Hazlitt

Although Christianity has a poor record on animals (as it does, it must be said, on the treatment of slaves, women, children,…

— Andrew Linzey

When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position…

— Richard Lindzen

Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and,…

— Richard Dawkins

If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is…

— Carl Rogers

I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to…

— Cliff Stearns

I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies…

— Dean Koontz

I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography),…

— Potter Stewart

There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at…

— Esther Hicks

The recovery of spiritual sight and the healing of physical blindness have much in common. Some of those whose bodily eyes were…

— Gregory Palamas

My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew…

— William Kentridge

I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy…

— Edmund White

Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy…

— John Kiriakou

Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under the poor silly girl's embraces, and she turned extremely pale: directing one appealing look, first to Mrs.…

— Charles Dickens

I had been hearing on-the-ground buzz that white folks were moving to places like Bend, Oregon, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and St.…

— Richard Benjamin

The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the…

— Benjamin Rush

It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the…

— Kate Bush

The attention that's being projected by men who simply watch you walking down the street, in the office, or in bed, in…

— Frederick Lenz

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

— Bob Beamon

You have to use your judgment. In cases like that, we say, 'let's be simple minded. We know this is a feature…

— Jeff Bezos

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

— Henry A. Kissinger

I think you have a case of either 'testitis' or 'I Didn't Do My Homework Syndrome'. It's common in the Spring.

— Ellen Schreiber

Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move…

— Jamake Highwater

In the best-case scenario, the audience sees themselves in your shoes. The only way you can do that is if you try…

— Jay Baruchel

There has been no case made - based on anything other than speculation - that Iraq poses a threat.

— Scott Ritter

I have the experience we need to make the changes we want and I think that's a winning case.

— Hillary Clinton

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life,…

— Tibor Fischer

It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.

— Robert Breault

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible…

— Al Sharpton

Each decision will be done on a case-by-case basis and we'll make the decision we feel is best for the New England…

— Bill Belichick

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

— Shepard Smith

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where…

— Robin Wright