“It is romantic, yes,’ agreed Hercule Poirot. ‘It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
At best-which is to say, even where our knowledge of a case comes to us only through courtroom evidence-it is difficult for… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been… — Gerald Clarke Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a society where we ask sporting leagues or place of employment to dole out harsher punishment… — Shannon Sharpe Copy Share Image
The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior. — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret.… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Already, there is evidence that crimes are being committed with regard to campaign finance, and the FEC is unable to do anything. — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
It was a white-collar crime.” Illium gave her an odd look. “In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“The announced function of the police, “to protect and serve the people,” becomes the grotesque caricature of protecting and preserving the interests… — Joy James Copy Share Image
“I once knew a fellow who committed robbery with violence, and he was sentenced to a long prison stretch and 12 strokes… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Almost none of us know how to escape the trap of self-punishment. It has sinisterly woven itself into the fibers of American… — Stefani Ruper Copy Share Image
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti-… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“The hinterlands . Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“He did his best to explain this to Inspector Sloan afterwards. 'A funny feeling, sir.' 'Yes?' Funny feelings were not encouraged at… — Catherine Aird Copy Share Image
Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse. — Bo Derek Copy Share Image
I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon,… — Henrik Vibskov Copy Share Image
There was no way possible [the queen] could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. The crimes were too gross,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals. — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Most crime novels offer a curious kind of escape, to places that jag the nerves and worry the mind. Their rides of… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Crime and the effect on the community, and the need for law enforcement - those are not abstract concepts or political slogans… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
The rest of Sitka's homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. — Jalal Ad-Din Rumi Copy Share Image
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The fact is, since then, many killings,murders, crime, drugs pouring across the border, are money going out and the drugs coming in.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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