Quotes of: Crimes Keyword

To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.

Abundant Living

I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine

The Hollow Man

I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

My Reading Life

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

Northwest Corner

Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.

Nation

When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse.

Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing

It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only a target for untamed fantasy.

Limitations

But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

The Sea of Trolls

Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?

Perfect Chemistry

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

Principles of Political Economy

Pity that child who was born near Rouen, His only crime, to arrive deformed.

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

A crime scene is a silent witness that speaks louder and clearer than any human. Just ask Helen Keller.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The sky was a feather blanket of clouds, save for one blue hole in the fabric. A blue cloud in a white sky.

The Winner's Crime

My neck size is about the size of both of my girlfriend’s clenched hands. They say strangulation is a crime of passion, and I say it’s the sign of romance in a relationship.

Xazaqazax

Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!

David Zucker

If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance program you can put in place.

Jed S. Rakoff

In the process of ego, in the process of lobbying and in the process of just criticising for stake of criticism or in the process of politicising, don't commit national crime. Don't prevent exploration in the country. Let us move ahead more aggressiv...

Veerappa Moily

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

Nikola Tesla

There is nothing more tedious about interviewing politicians. It would have been better if I'd been sent to cover some crime or another. Murderers are much more real.

Paulo Coelho

People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.

Pete Earley

And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.

Patty Hearst