Case Quotes

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I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul. — Amy Lowell
The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out… — Charles Horton Cooley
A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not… — Simone Weil
Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I think it really… — Lee Iacocca
At best-which is to say, even where our knowledge of a case comes to us only through courtroom evidence-it is difficult for the legal process… — Diana Trilling
Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case… — Diana Trilling
Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another? — Mary Astell
New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed. — Jim Harrison
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field,… — Mary McCarthy
When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention… — Roddy Doyle
We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot… — John Churton Collins
I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition. — Glenda Jackson
When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't… — Paul Theroux
The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and… — Barbara Tuchman
I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers… — Michael Lee-Chin
In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa… — Michelle Malkin
So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort… — Robert Waterman McChesney
One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience. — Bill Nighy
When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not… — Jo Nesbo
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity… — Richard Owen

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