Cases Quotations

I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.

In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.

It is very sad about Michael Jackson, much as in the tragic cases of Heath Ledger, Anna Nicole and other celebrities who have died are a result of drugs. It is always sad when such a bright light goes out.

Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes.

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.

Autoimmunity is probably the next frontier. The majority of cases of autoimmune disease result from a complex genetic problem that has environmental influences. It is a colossal task for the immune system to maintain tolerance to self and yet be ready to react to everything in the world around us.

With the assistance of electrical conductivity, we were able to trace by measurements the process of intercalation in a large number of cases and, consequently, to establish experimental foundations for the evaluation of the formation of such intercalation compounds.

Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.

As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile.

'Luther' is absolutely a monster-of-the-week show. Although it's post-watershed and is rendered in intense graphic novel-style images, it's inspiration is not that different from 'Doctor Who' as in both cases you've got a trickster figure who fights the monster of the week and is eventually successful.

Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes sick and in many cases dies. Along the way, the host infects others.

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians.

It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case.

For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.

We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.

In case you haven't caught the commercials, I'm in the new SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.

I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

I believe in greater self-sufficiency. International sport is tough, no doubt, but there shouldn't be too many crutches. In most cases sports psychologists are crutches, and they tend to soften rather than harden the players.

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.

What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court.

Typically, during recessionary times, particular groups suffer higher rates of unemployment -African Americans, and Latinos, and in some cases other minority groups. If you don't have a high level of training or education you're going to fall into that category.

Obviously Im a lawyer; I like to have cases.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.

I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.

On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

You know, there are only about 10 people in the United States that have ever argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court, this man has won 25 cases before the Supreme Court. He's an overwhelming choice.

I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles.

Sometimes when I'm stuck, I really do need that cup of tea, or that chocolate, or a break, or a walk, but in most cases what I actually need to do is make myself keep writing until it flows again.

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.

Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of sitcom, arms-in-front-of-your-body sleepwalking, and then maybe Olive Oil and Popeye when she sleepwalks through the construction site. But it's all very cartoonish, in some cases literally.

Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

Beyond its entertainment values, 'Baywatch' has enriched and in many cases helped save lives.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.

Exactly who does use the safe-haven laws is difficult to discern. Most states make no effort to study the cases or compile any data, and the anonymous nature of the process makes outside research nearly impossible.

The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.

No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.

I'm happy single, but I'm happy in both cases. I feel like I definitely thrive more as a human and I'm more successful when I'm single.

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next '1' ready to be launched in case I drop.

In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

The horrific cases in Ferguson, in Staten Island with the death of Eric Garner, and all across the country serve as stark reminders that we must have a say in who polices us, and how that policing is done. We must, we must, let our voices be heard on Election Day.

The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet as possible, and flexible enough to be able to capture the moment when it happens. I know from documentary how to not have a preconceived idea of what the scene could be.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.

Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now they're selling 30.

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.

Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.

A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state.

We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%.

Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A.

In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time.

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.