Cases Quotes
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The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it is the function of the other to improve. If, as in Egypt, they are firmly chained together, either science will advance, in which case the religion will be altered, or the religion will preserve its purity, and science will congeal.
William Winwood Reade
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Michael Phillips haven't really tested extensively. Michael Phillips don't know how widespread it is. If you don't test, you're not going to find it, i think what's clear is however many cases there are here now, there are going to be more.
Ronald Klain
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I want in all cases to do right.
Abraham Lincoln
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Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.
Witold Gombrowicz
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Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.
William Stanley Jevons
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Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?
John Tillotson
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The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.
George C. Homans
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I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.
Steve Albini Big Black
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I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.
Tom Hollander
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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.
Tim Ferriss
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After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.
Rudolf Arnheim
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Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.
Eula Biss
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A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.
Edwin Lefevre
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Apart from one or two difficult cases, people have accepted it and got on with it. Industry is very comfortable.
Elliot Morley
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In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
Richard Feynman
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What keeps me going is those cases, maybe ten a year, where I can make a difference.
Judy Sheindlin
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For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.
Virginia Woolf
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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.
Harold Evans
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But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.
Ray Walston
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It's important for me to have strong hair in case someone pulls it and tries to rip it all out.
Troy Polamalu
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Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.
Rita Mae Brown
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Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
Shirley Chisholm