Specific Case Quotes

#1. The sad thing is that somehow, it is a type of event that mirrors the artist. You take it into account, and you're reminded in this specific case what the artist's work is about, what his life is like, and how life mirrors art.

Massimiliano Gioni

#2. If values are vague, and if they are always too broad for the concrete and specific case that we are considering, the only thing left for us is to trust our instincts.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#3. I believe careers should be judged independently unless there's a clear conflict of interest in a specific case.

John Fund

#4. I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Andrew Wyeth

#5. We live our lives, made up of a great quantity of / isolated instants / So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things.

John Ashbery

#6. Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.

Richard M. Helms

#7. I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

Taylor Swift

#8. Read everything, absolutely everything. There's no such thing as a book that offers nothing.

Mark Rubinstein

#9. In essence, the Mexica remained little more than a band of pirates, sallying forth from their great city to loot and plunder and to submit vast areas to tribute payment, without altering the essential social constitution of their victims

Eric Wolf

#10. As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.

Josh Elliott

#11. We should evaluate judges and judicial nominees based on the general process for applying the law to any legal disputes, not on the specific result in a particular case or dispute.

Orrin Hatch

#12. One of my favourite ways to demonstrate Social Authority is with case studies that tell stories about a specific customer.

David Jenyns

#13. You'll just pamper Anne's vanity, Matthew, and she's as vain as a peacock now.

L.M. Montgomery

#14. In the absence of any general inference from 'A is a potential X' to 'A has the rights of an X', we should not accept that a potential person should have the rights of a person, unless we can be given some specific reason why this should hold in this particular case.

Peter Singer

#15. I will sometimes post tweets that are about a specific person or people, in which case I will imagine the people I am tweeting about to be my audience.

Mira Gonzalez

#16. The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a specific reference to the side of the body nervously affected, is in itself evidence that in this case the ancient surgeon was already beginning observations on the localization of functions in the brain.

James Henry Breasted

#17. All Ghosts Are Gray

Andrew Barger

#18. I am appreciative of the Bush administration's commitment to fair trade by looking at the facts in this case and ruling affirmatively for the implementation of quotas in this specific category.

Howard Coble

#19. Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.

Marianne Williamson

#20. Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a little confused by it all and the singing isn't very intense. It only lasts a week or so each fall, but it's still cool to hear spring bird songs at this time of the year.

Craig Thompson

#21. Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#22. To develop judgment, you need to not only read theory but also apply it, and discussion-based or case-based teaching is a way to simulate business situations and have students ask themselves, "What would I do if I were in this specific situation?

Espen Anderson

#23. Nature awakens in brilliant colors of autumn, making me wish winter would bid adieu.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#24. We all have such fateful objects
it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another
carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.

Vladimir Nabokov

#25. I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.

Gil Gerard

#26. I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

Sara Sheridan

#27. It's a memoir of various events in my own life, but it's also a teaching book: along the way I explain the writing decisions I made. They are the same decisions that confront every writer going in search of his or her past: matters of selection, reduction, organization and tone.

William Zinsser

#28. When we opened the doors, we saw that the entire room was scorched black and you were on the floor possibly dead, surrounded by broken glass. Window glass is expensive, you realize that?" "Yes, Your Majesty," he said meekly.

Megan Whalen Turner

#29. Losing your virginity is a lot like when you find out that Santa doesn't exist ... First you're slightly disappointed, and then you're happy because you're in on the secret

Ben Mitchell

#30. If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.

Kathleen Tessaro