Cases Quotes - Page 15

I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.

Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.

So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.

I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.

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.

There are many things that we can understand, but in the end it is a case of 'anything is possible'.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.

It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.

You only get a second to score a goal in football. In Wolves' case it was 20 seconds

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.

I want in all cases to do right.

Once the movie's over, there's not much point. When the thing is edited, mixed, and color-corrected, and you've finished it... In my case, I never read anything about it, I never think about it.

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

Our assent to the hypothesis implies that it is held to be true of all particular instances. That these cases belong to past or to future times, that they have or have not already occurred, makes no difference in the applicability of the rule to them. Because the rule prevails, it includes all cases.

Haste is needful in a desperate case.

A rotten case abides no handling.

The novel ceases to be looked at as a novel. Such is the overwhelming power of motion pictures. Gore Vidal pointed out that the movies are the only thing anybody's really interested in. The association with movies and movie money can, and certainly did in my case, occlude a novel as a novel.

I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.

It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.

My mother was pretty much on my case all the time.