Crime Quote by Eula Biss Download Open image ““In this case, I can only hope that my life, which is my crime, might also serve as my apology.”” — Eula Biss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Life
“I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In this life, when you deny someone an apology, you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“People like him think you can apologize things away, that you can confess over and over until you are free to repeat your crime.” — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.” — @Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“If you expect and hope, for fair, honest and truthful behaviour, from the criminals; it is your great mistake.” — Ehsan Sehgal Copy Share Image
“Think first - you can apologize for hurtful words, but you can't take them back once spoken.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.” — Wil Zeus Copy Share Image
“No one is sorry for how they’ve treated you. They will only show remorse after you gain the power to ruin their lives.” — PK Kasirim Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he gives a little flourish with his fingers that makes me wonder if all his movements are a quiet performance.” — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“I pause when the man at the register lays down a red carnation with my change, says quietly, “This is for you,” and turns… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“Sonata,” he says, “means ‘sounding together.’ It is an argument in which one theme is presented in opposition to another and they struggle until… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“I think I remember him saying that the problem with a tire fire is that it can smolder for years, burning quietly but uncontrollably.” — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford. — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” What” — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less,… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“When he says, “Why can’t you follow a recipe?” I am hurt, because I know that he is not just asking why I can’t… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“We had been arguing for hours and it was dark in the room. We sat silently on the couch, I was tapping my foot… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing.… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“Mother: “He used to say that you could lock me in a closet and I’d still get something out of it. I guess that’s… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“I was shaking when I asked my mother, “Do you think you eat enough?” She was silent for a long time until she said… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image