Cases Quotes

In many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report [terrorists attacks].They have their reasons, and you understand that.

We have to know what we're doing. Right now, our police, in many cases, are afraid to do anything.

Quite often there's a great deal of disagreement within the executive branch about what we should do. Some cases are pretty straightforward, but a lot of them aren't.

I know there's a lot of nasty humor directed at celebrities, but my feeling is, in most cases, they deserve it.

So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.

In certain extreme cases, medication may be necessary. But it is given far too often, too easily, and too readily. Millions of children already are on tranquilizers, for example, and that is absurd.

We have to recognise that rights are being violated. The United Nations actually filed a report that found that that was the case, that mass surveillance is a violation of rights.

Going all the way back to Daniel Ellsberg, it is clear that the government is not concerned with damage to national security, because in none of these cases was there damage.

I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on a case-by-case basis and see what that part is.

... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

As a designer, I love to explore user edge cases and figure out what appear to be rules.

There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.

Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.

Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.

In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me

People associate farmworkers with illegal immigrants, and that's really not the case.

Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

In most cases, energy is lost in little games of manipulation, in little struggles of will, in the attempts to possess others, to wrap them up, to delude them, to shine them on.

The attention that's being projected by men who simply watch you walking down the street, in the office, or in bed, in most cases, is going to be extremely destructive.

It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.

How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before!

Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything goes with it.

I wish I could be the guy who did the right thing at every time but unfortunately, that's not the case.

In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force.

I rest their case. I'm Pro-Life.

A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.

Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

I cannot take every case that people ask me to take.

Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.

In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.

I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn't like the film - fair cop. Others, I think, didn't understand it.

The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.

The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.

When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.

She was born in the Objective case.

I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money.

In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtlety of nature.

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.

What I hankered for was an account of knowledge which would do far more than get our intuitions about cases right; I wanted a kind of account which would somehow be explanatory.