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Quotes About Case

The Grand Old Duke of York He had ten thousand men. His case comes up next week.
~ Spike Milligan
2.0 said I know violence isn't the solution to everything, but in this case... In this case, yeah.
~ Martha Wells
It didn't make any sense If someone was out to kill David, why drug him first? The killer could have just shot him and have done with it.  Why take the time to drug him?  Nothing made much sense at the moment.  He wondered if it ever would. Looking at all the reports and interviews, Draker was puzzled: a murder case, the victim was drugged then shot and it was made to look like he had committed suicide but why?
~ Unknown
The rub is that any work of nonsense abounds with so many inviting symbols that you can start with any assumption you please about the author and easily build up an impressive case for it. Consider, for example, the scene in which Alice seizes the end of the White King's pencil and begins scribbling for him. In five minutes one can invent six different interpretations.
~ Martin Gardner
So long as the investigation is still open, Gunnels explains, there is no way to request documents pertaining to the case through the Freedom of Information Act. "That investigation will probably stay open a long time," he says.
~ Matt Taibbi
What is there at each moment is 'structural truth,' connected to perspective, to centering, to structurimg. Of course other ways of structuring are possinle, formalizations, from which it results that the current way of structuring is surpassed, that the current way of structuring looks to be a particular case.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
There were events that stuck in my mind. One, for example, was the case of the missing palace seal at the beginning of winter.' 'Oh the poor animal,' she cried out, 'they're such beautiful creatures.' 'I'm speaking of the royal seal placed on correspondence, as you would know,' he said.
~ Melina Marchetta
The trick if you are sitting at the defense table is to be patient. To wait. Not just for any lie. But for the one you can grab on to and forge like hot iron into a sharpened blade. You then use that blade to rip the case open and spill its guts on the floor.
~ Michael Connelly
His case was as important to him as any of the other fourteen serial killer cases I was dealing with at that stage.
~ Unknown
Surviving victims and family members of victims should realise that by discussing the details of a murder with journalists they are seriously jeopardising the chances that the suspect might be found guilty in court. They can sell their stories as soon as the case is closed and the killer is behind bars.
~ Unknown
So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.
~ Murray Gell-Mann
You can drive." When he raised an eyebrow, she said, "I've had enough contact with human males to realize you seem to have a congenital inability to function while a female is at the wheel, and I'd rather your full attention be on the case.
~ Nalini Singh
What I'd like is a case. You know how it happens in these crime stories, chaps....I read a good many of them and it's always the same thing. The keen young P. C. happens to be on the spot when there's a homicide, His Super has to call in the Yard and before you know where you are the P. C.'s working with one of the Big Four and getting praised for his witty deductions.
~ Ngaio Marsh
Hardy had a silver pencil case with him, for jotting down signals. He chewed on it in moments of stress.
~ Unknown
Sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, are experts in generalities. When confrontedy by the bull's horns of a concrete case, they all look like Anglo-Saxon bullfighters.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The interest of a parent in the life of his child has all the requisite specificity and intensity that could possibly be required of a "case" or "controversy" under Article III.
~ Unknown
Well you're a real tough cookie with a long history Of breaking little hearts like the one in me Before I put another notch in my lipstick case You better make sure you put me in my place
~ Pat Benatar
Yesterday's poets are today's detectives. They spend a life sniffing out the hundredth line, wrapping up a case, and limping exhausted into the sunset.
~ Patti Smith
We are not where we are, he finds, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out
~ Paul Auster
What he does not know is that were he to find the patience to read the book in the spirit in which it asks to be read, his entire life would begin to change, and little by little he would come to a full understanding of his situation—that is to say, of Black, of White, of the case, of everything that concerns him.
~ Paul Auster
Congratulations, you may already be a winner! Your case has been selected from hundreds of other appellate cases to be heard by the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
~ Paul Beatty
God's will." It's a rubric, I fear, that can be, and is, so easily misunderstood and then misused, and so it ends up a greater source of harm than of help in people's lives, usually without them realizing that this is the case. This can happen in a variety of ways.
~ Unknown
If you're a lawyer in a TV show, you handle only one case at a time, wrap it up by the last pitch for Pepto-Bismol, after which you're toting your briefcase down the courthouse steps with a beautiful client congratulating you for a wonderful job. Real life is different.
~ Paul Levine
The grace factor will be revealed in three areas of your life: grace for the race; grace for the place; and grace for the case.
~ Unknown