Case Quotes - page 4

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case. (Frank B. Kellogg)
Its always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units. View quote
David Almond
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. View quote
James Henry Breasted
There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case. View quote
Ed Harris
Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct. View quote
Elihu Root
Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts. View quote
Elihu Root
Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must hold fast to this fact - man is something to work on. View quote
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
The reason there's a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address. View quote
Leslie Nielsen
At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing. View quote
Lauren Groff
I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together. (Robert Mueller)
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case. View quote
Emmeline Pankhurst
We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements. View quote
Anna Lindh
Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool. View quote
Arthur Keith
I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there. View quote
Floyd Abrams
I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it. View quote
Gil Gerard
The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany. View quote
Henry Charles Carey
And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails. View quote
Herman Gorter
It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step. View quote
Harry Mathews
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. View quote
Norman Lear
It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends. (Peter Hook)
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below. View quote
Robert Fitzgerald
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. View quote
Robert Fortune
People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed. View quote
Ray Davies
You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment. View quote
Stephen Breyer