Case Quotes
3360 quotes by 2389 authors
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Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then…
— Salman Rushdie
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My mother says that when Mrs. Rowley is mean, which is generally the case, it is really because she is just unhappy, and who could…
— Laura Moriarty
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One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than you think on…
— Mark Helprin
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The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re…
— Bruce Sterling
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The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to take a feeling…
— Nick Hornby
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The fact is, the heart and mind aren't always friendly. And in my case, they're barely speaking.
— Alyson Noel
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Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding him…
— Janet Evanovich
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Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.
— Diana Wynne Jones
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All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem,…
— Nick Hornby
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Redd laughed. "The lovely thing about being here," she said, gesturing at the maze, "is that I'm able to immagine your imagination powerless. Ah, if…
— Frank Beddor
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Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was…
— Ben Elton
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Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved;…
— Salman Rushdie
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A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever loving them, have…
— Rachilde
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Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?
— Sena Jeter Naslund
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The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in…
— Guy Debord
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It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for…
— Thomas Aquinas
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just in case" is the curse of packing
— Alexandra Potter
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In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are…
— Vaclav Havel
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