Case Quotes
3360 quotes by 2389 authors
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Slender Youth. A tour companion who may be either a lost prince or a girl/princess in disguise. In the latter case it is tactful to…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally…
— Salman Rushdie
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In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know…
— William Hazlitt
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How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and…
— Jane Austen
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I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and…
— Edwin A. Abbott
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I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone…
— Jenny Downham
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Can't you just thank me and get over it?" "Thank you." I waited, fuming and expectant. "You're not going to let it go, are you?"…
— Stephenie Meyer
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You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because…
— Jodi Picoult
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In case you haven't noticed, I'm a lover not a fighter.
— Amanda Hocking
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Our favourite item was the balcony that overlooked the sea because it had an awning that you lowered by pressing an electric switch. The switch…
— Douglas Adams
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Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim--in fact, the majority--who…
— Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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I took his hand, and suddely he yanked me―too roughly―right off the bed so that I thudded against his chest. "Just in case," he muttered…
— Stephenie Meyer
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If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would…
— Charles Darwin
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Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,'…
— Albert Camus
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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure…
— Victor Hugo
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I'm trying to make you think I'm a decent person. Telling you I saw you naked while I was another species does not help my…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You…
— Betty Smith
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I knelt and opened up my lute case. Moving the lute aside, I pressed the lid of the secret compartment and twisted it open. I…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms…
— Lawrence Durrell
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