Case Quotes
3360 quotes by 2494 authors
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The beauty of a language is, generally judged by its soft or rigid, melodious or harsh, ring. Other aspects, such as the flexibility of derivation,…
— Kató Lomb
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When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry…
— Robert Bringhurst
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Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation…
— Lewis Hyde
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Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.
— Joe Klein
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An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they…
— Luke Scott
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We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or…
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
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The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you…
— Gladys Taber
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Cot-death is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and experience as to…
— Irwin Stone
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One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but…
— Hermann Ebbinghaus
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I stress that I am not attacking Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and the environmental movement in general. They have done some good work overall.…
— David Icke
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Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the…
— Marta Andreasen
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We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have…
— David Leavitt
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You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).
— Nora Ephron
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Maybe young women don't wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case any of you are wondering, of course you can…
— Nora Ephron
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I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale.…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing…
— Jan Morris
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Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.
— Lance Armstrong
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