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Cases Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to…
- If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at…
- I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any…
- Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.
- Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and…
- We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is…
- Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read…
- Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated…
More Cases Quotes
- I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually… — Adam Arkin
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
- I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security… — Michele Bachmann
- They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an… — Ginger Baker
- Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. — Abu Bakr
- It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. — James A. Baldwin