Cases Quotes

• The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Abortion

• If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Development
  • Indirect
  • Efficacy

• Thus, in a crucial way, the Kansas hearings repeat the pattern set by the Scopes Trial, which has been repeated many times since, namely, evolutionists escaped critical scrutiny by not having to undergo cross-examination. In this case, they accomplished the feat by boycotting the hearings. I therefore await the day when the hearings are not voluntary but involve subpoenas that compel evolutionists to be deposed and interrogated at length on their views.

  

  William A. Dembski
  • Accomplished
  • Critical
  • Crosses

• Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.

  

  Anthony Hope
  • Should
  • Economy
  • Frugality

• The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Bombs
  • Psalms
  • Shepherds

• As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

  

  William Hague
  • Strong
  • Shadow
  • Accepting

• It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.

  

  Archibald Alexander
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.

  

  Shakuntala Devi
  • Brain
  • Body
  • Muscles

• I went to the butchers to buy a leg of lamb. "Is it Scotch?", I asked. "Why?" the butcher said in reply. "Are you going to talk to it or eat it?". "In that case, have you got any wild duck?". "No", he responded, "but I've got one I could aggravate for you."

  

  Chic Murray
  • Funny
  • Humor
  • Ducks

• She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You have a bad case, a very bad case." "Of what?" "Growing up.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Question
  • Next
  • Fundamentals

• I have gas mask in my office because I took Chem/bio warfare training class so I can report in case of an attack. It’s on a copy of my head made by Madame Tussauds

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Training
  • Office
  • Mask

• My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • May
  • Mines

• With increased surveillance its not unusual that you would pick up more cases.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Up
  • Cases
  • Surveillance

• One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

  

  Tim Pawlenty
  • Needs
  • President
  • Shows

• I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Writing
  • Play
  • Film

• Bernie Sanders would say, "You still have millions of African Americans who aren't insured, and if we had a single-payer system, that wouldn't be the case." And that's true.

  

  Barack Obama
  • True
  • Single
  • Stills

• You ever say a phrase you say all the time at the wrong time, feel like a complete idiot? Something like, 'You, too. You, too.' I was getting out of the cab at the airport, and the driver goes, 'Hey, have a nice flight.' 'You, too. You, too. You have a nice flight, too - in case you ever fly some day.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Feels
  • Idiot
  • Flight

• Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

  

  Vittorio De Sica
  • Funny
  • Moral
  • Envy

• The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Life is

• Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Common
  • Substitutes
  • Foils

• Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?

  

  William Cowper
  • Reason
  • Disgrace
  • Sole

• Talk often, but never long: in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Long
  • Cases
  • Tire

• In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

  

  William Godwin
  • Question
  • Rule
  • Understood

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