Famous Quotes & Sayings

The lower court must now confront the real merits of this case ... that there is no constitutional justification for prohibiting grass-roots lobbying about upcoming votes in Congress, just because we are in an election season.

David Souter

The Constitution is a pantheon of values, and a lot of hard cases are hard because the Constitution gives no simple rule of decision for the cases in which one of the values is truly at odds with another.

All of the violations reported in 2005 have been closed and zero cases went to court in 2004. Since then, we are looking at the cases more and more closely and not ignoring the rules.

All of the cases confirmed by the laboratory are people who had close contact with infected, sick or dead poultry. The major point now is to control the outbreak in poultry as it is the source of infection in humans.

All the schools have to do is fill out some paperwork, and we will send it right through, ... We have a hardship clause that waives the usual wait for transfers for extraordinary and unusual circumstances. If there was ever a case that fits that, I'd say this is it.

All the items were taken from within the building. There are no suspects at this time. The case is currently under investigation.

Charlize Theron

And didn't just happen in Minnesota, ... Anita Hill wasn't an isolated case. There are cases everywhere. And I don't think it's stopped.

Andrew Mitchell

And if and when he launches, David will fight a strong campaign... and I'm confident that when he has put his case he will be successful.

Eddie Condon

Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!

Chuck Palahniuk

My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through.

The markets have got a case of valuation acrophobia,

The matter before the court was whether Microsoft could be held in contempt for violating a consent decree entered in 1995. The court denied the Justice Department's petition for contempt; the case should have ended there. But on its own initiative, the court proceeded to treat the matter as a tying case and, without giving Microsoft notice or an opportunity to defend itself, issued a preliminary injunction.

The materials sought were not critical to the prosecution case and could just as well be obtained in an orderly fashion by noticed motion.

The market has been spooked by the fact that these guys would overpay. But I don't think this can be in any way interpreted as a worse case scenario.

The market has been spooked by the fact that these guys would overpay, ... But I don't think this can be in any way interpreted as a worse case scenario.

The market is really waiting for (Friday's) numbers. It's going to be a case of as interest rates go, so go equity markets.

Gail Carriger

How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before!

Norman Maclean

The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.

Any time you have more cases of a disease than you expect, you want to know why.

Any time you have a conversation about how you reconfigure districts, those questions are going to be a consideration. In some cases the idea is that consolidation will lead to more fairness. In others it's that smaller districts might mean more local control and better support for student needs.

Any time there's silence like this in a case, the parties have got to be talking. Cases don't just languish unless there's something else going on.

Barry Bonds

So far, so good. I hate to say anything just in case somewhere down the road something happens, but at this stage and the way I feel, I'll play, definitely.

That might be idealistic. It might be naive. But I certainly hope it is the case that these self-described Bush-haters actually hate his policies. They might find him distasteful or a simpleton - pick your insulting term. But he's a tough guy to hate. He seems like a nice guy, when you get right down to it.

That Microsoft now questions the competency and integrity of a trustee they themselves helped appoint is outrageous. All the parties involved in the case found the trustee showed an intimate competence and understanding. How do they now dare maintain that he is biased?

Kate Brown

That?s a pretty close vote as it is, ... I?d like to have a little more in my pocketbook in case something goes wrong.

Kevin Smith

Expanding congressional representation for any territory is a pretty big decision, one that the conference should discuss and debate. Mr. Boehner has great respect for the bill's sponsors and would offer them the opportunity to make their case before the conference and our constituents.

Philip Russell

He was going to plead guilty. This was a white collar case and typically in white collar cases, we don't see these type of tragic results.

He was mighty tickled and was a good kid. But I had to give him a lecture on keeping a phone number to contact someone in case of an emergency.

This situation is not yet a serious public health threat, but if you compare this one with the two laboratory-acquired cases in Taiwan and Singapore, and also if you compare this one with the four SARS cases (in Guangdong, China) which happened during the first part of this year ... the situation needs more attention,

Compared with the slowdown at the start of the year, these numbers look a little healthier. In the short term, the numbers don't help the case for rate cuts.

Any case that goes to a jury, you don't know what is going to happen until they come back.

Any case should be tried in a court of law and not a court of public opinion.