Quotes of: Crimes Keyword

He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.

The Big Sleep

Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?

The Book Thief

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

The Bald Soprano and The Lesson: Two Plays -- A New Translation

It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravi...

Russell Smith

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

Bob Barr

When the watermelons were as large as a child's head, the women boiled them, but they collapsed into a tasteless green mush that no one could eat, not the children, not the cow.

Accordion Crimes

It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor's wife should cut them all out and paste them into her scrapbook.

Alias Grace

But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. But should the child therefore also enjoy the father's illicit gain?

The Inheritance of Loss

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.

Jane Eyre

I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.

The Return of Don Quixote

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

A Spy in the House of Love

These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. --- from the notebooks of Celal Salik

The Museum of Innocence

The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.

Mother Night

The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and laboriously compiled, is made the instrument of man's destruction.

The Mouse the Roared

When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime.

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

I often think about a life of crime. But alas, politics isn’t for me.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

Noting the lack of crime or security in the Netherlands, the author asked a native who guarded a national landmark. He got the replay, "We all do.

Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.

The Last Crossing

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

Leviathan

To not get caught, commit your crime in such a way so that anybody could have done it, because if anybody could have pulled it off than everyone is a suspect, and therefore nobody is a suspect.


Sleepwalking is restercise

Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

Soccer in Sun and Shadow