Quotes with cases

  • Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.
  • Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.
  • 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.
  • To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
  • Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
  • 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.
  • Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
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  • T. S. Eliot All cases are unique and very similar to others.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Anna Jameson All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Edith Wharton Almost everybody in the neighborhood had ''troubles,'' frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had ''complications.'' To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Bill Gross Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Billy Collins Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Albert Speer Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Caroline Knapp Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Mark Twain Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Robert Malthus Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
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  • Thornton Wilder I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Albert Ellis I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Henry David Thoreau 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.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carlos Ghosn If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Carol Loomis In general, the hedge funds were clobbered by the 1969 bear market, ending up in many cases with records that were worse than those put together by aggressive mutual funds denied the luxury of short sales.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro In many cases, Obama's exercise of authoritarian power is criminal. His executive branch is responsible for violations of the Arms Export Control Act in shipping weapons to Syria, the Espionage Act in Libya, and IRS law with regard to the targeting of conservative groups.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Jane Austen In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Bert Lance In politics, you have to understand that there are some cases where you'll never be able to get votes.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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