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I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.†“I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.
-- Aaron Allston -
Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.
-- Aimee Mann -
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
-- Alan Perlis -
One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.
-- Aldous Huxley -
You only get a second to score a goal in football. In Wolves' case it was 20 seconds
-- Alex McLeish -
Yes, I'm very normal, everything is okay, I won't become a psychiatric case.
-- Alfred Jodl -
Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
-- Andy Rooney -
In our minds, rich is always the other person, the other family. Rich is having more than you currently have. If that is the case, you can be rich and not feel it. You can be rich and not know it.
-- Andy Stanley -
Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.
-- Ann Brashares -
While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.
-- Ann Coulter -
I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.
-- Annabel Pitcher -
Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.
-- Anthony Hope -
Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.
-- Anton Chekhov -
We didn't have steroids. If I wanted to get pumped up, I drank a case of beer.
-- Art Donovan -
Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.
-- Arthur Lynch -
The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.
-- Babe Didrikson Zaharias -
Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
-- Babe Ruth -
It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act...
-- Balfour Stewart -
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
-- Barbara Stanwyck -
I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived of any part of his property, without his having an opportunity of being heard.
-- Bayley -
Just in case God isn't dead, our astronauts carry sidearms.
-- Ben Lerner -
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
-- Ben Okri -
If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.
-- Bill James -
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
-- Bill Nighy -
One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
-- Bill Nighy -
Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I lost in '96, in case the word hadn't trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.
-- Bob Dole -
I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.
-- Brian D. McLaren -
When people hear the word “beautifulâ€, they expect something to be pretty. And for me that's not always necessarily the case, y'know.
-- Brian Molko -
You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist and to state your case strongly, then you do it.
-- Bronwyn Bishop -
As is always the case when peace takes precedence over liberty, neither is achieved.
-- Bruce Herschensohn -
UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.
-- Carl Sagan -
There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.
-- Catherine Marshall -
The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.
-- Celia Green -
I put my own d*ck in my mouth. I was 14 and much more flexible at the time. It was soft and required a lot of pulling. I really wanted that case of beer.
-- Chad Kroeger -
He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.
-- Charles Frazier -
The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Do not be perturbed with by an ill-bred person; in most cases the one who is unsociable has a liver complaint and bad nerves.
-- Chico Xavier -
In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is.
-- Chris Stein -
In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.
-- Chuck Grassley -
The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
You’ve got to guess at worst cases: No model will tell you that. My rule of thumb is double the worst that you have ever seen.
-- Cliff Asness -
Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.
-- Cliff Stearns -
The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragged.
-- Colson Whitehead -
in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
To admit one's own presuppositions and to point out the presuppositions of others is therefore to maintain that all reasoning is, in the nature of the case, circular reasoning. The starting-point, the method, and the conclusion are always involved in one another.
-- Cornelius Van Til -
I don't understand referees. It appears like some players can't even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they can.
-- Cristiano Ronaldo -
Why is the Rockefeller Commission so Single-Minded About a Lone Assassin in the Kennedy Case?,
-- Cyril Wecht -
In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.
-- Dan Abrams -
Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
Although most of us realize what we control and do not control, we live as though we do not really know, and in some cases we spend years focusing on things we cannot control.
-- Darren Johnson -
Beyond its entertainment values, 'Baywatch' has enriched and in many cases helped save lives.
-- David Hasselhoff -
In case you haven't caught the commercials, I'm in the new SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
-- David Hasselhoff -
There are many things that we can understand, but in the end it is a case of 'anything is possible'.
-- David Icke -
I just swing hard in case I hit it -- that's it.
-- David Ortiz -
A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
-- Diane Setterfield -
It appears to be a case of revenge run amok.
-- Dianne Feinstein -
We've never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming.
-- Dick Cheney -
Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the U.N.'s going to take over'? Well, they're beginning to have a case.
-- Dick Morris -
A case of can't do with, can't do without, that's why I married him again.
-- Dionne Warwick -
In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.
-- Donna Rice Hughes -
Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
-- Doris Lessing -
Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut.
-- Duane G. Carey -
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned
-- Duke of Wellington -
If you make a good family movie, then everybody in the family can relate to somebody, or in this case something. That's always enjoyable. There's always an important place for family movies.
-- Dwayne Johnson -
But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.
-- Dwight Yoakam -
What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!
-- Eddie Condon -
The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.
-- Eden Sher -
There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.
-- Edward Teller -
I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.
-- Eileen Wilks -
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.
-- Eli Roth -
How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of women.
-- Emmeline Pankhurst -
Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.
-- Erin Morgenstern -
People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.
-- Erin Morgenstern -
You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
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.
-- Ernst Mach -
In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me
-- Ethel Merman -
If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
-- F. Lee Bailey -
There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.
-- Frank Chodorov -
We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.
-- Freddie Mercury -
Both of them are close to how I'd envisioned them. In Ico's case the design and in SotC's the visual look were very close to what I'd imagined.
-- Fumito Ueda -
The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more
-- G. H. Hardy -
How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before!
-- Gail Carriger -
Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
-- Garet Garrett -
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg
