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You have the choice to be here as a speck of creation or as the very source of creation. Not exploring such a phenomenal possibility is a crime.
— Jaggi Vasudev
I let my initial stance on her prettiness stand and didn't let any superficial thoughts hobble it.
— S.A. Tawks
Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.
— S.A. Tawks
It's time to end the brain drain and move to brain gain. It's time for a great mind of Nigeria to return home. You're the mind we need, Doctor.
— Deji Olukotun
A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.
— Karin Slaughter
Don't worry. It is not a crime to love the wrong person. Most people manage it at least once in their lives.
— Alex Gerlis
Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.
— Sophie Hannah
We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.
— Paul Broun
All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is a crime
— Oscar Wilde
Oh sure, its fine when a monkey does it. But when I throw barrels at an Italian plumber, they call it a hate crime!
— Stephen Colbert
Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!
— Sara Sheridan
Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !
— Rajib Mukherjee
Distance and time and a whitewashed mind hadn't kept a child from growing, from existing, from demanding a place on this earth.
— V.S. Kemanis
Danbury wasnt a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine.
— George Jung
There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.
— Chuck Todd
Call me Dudley. We're of equal rank. I'm older, but you're far better looking. I can tell we're going to be grand partners.
— James Ellroy
I am not their f*****g entertainment. And I am not a f*****g hero! Given the choice, a hero would do exactly the same again. I wouldn't. Okay?
— Andrew Barrett
Man is a creature who gets used to everything, and that, I think, is the best definition of him.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Everywhere on our planet one hand greases another. Often it's done with a bloated face, wearing a serpent's smile.
M.Sullivan — Mike Sullivan
M.Sullivan — Mike Sullivan
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself.
— S.A. Tawks
Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
— Christina Stead
It is never a crime to love someone.
— Malinda Lo
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.
— Samuel Johnson
Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone.
— S.A. Tawks
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.
— Grover Cleveland
Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?
— Anthony Kennedy
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.
— James G. Frazer
Than the first, so you could have a fairly recent crime. But that could also
— Jonathan Kellerman
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
— Bill Vaughan
I always thought of myself as being the unluckiest girl I knew. I was, I believed, a 'jinx' and I was 'jinxed', or so I thought!
— Stephen Richards
Even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation, does it?
— Frances Noyes Hart
Hearsay cannot stand as valid testimony, and assumption spun from hearsay is a rope of sand.
— Theodore Roscoe
The Statesman who, knowing his instrument to be ready, and seeing War inevitable, hesitates to strike first is guilty of a crime against his country.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Your choices can only be limited by your mind.
— S.A. Tawks
Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Penology ... has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime ... a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety.
— Paul Goodman
How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?
— Robert A. Heinlein
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
— Honore De Balzac
Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.
— Hank Stuever
Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.
— Rodney Dangerfield
War is a crime which involves all other crimes.
— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux
I was prosecutor for 18 years. I was threatened by drug dealers, murders, and organized crime. This was a walk in the park.
— Tom Marino
In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.
— Diane Mott Davidson
Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
— Alexander Pope
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.
— Honore De Balzac
She was a cute as a washtub.
— Raymond Chandler
Pity that child who was born near Rouen,
His only crime, to arrive deformed. — E.A. Bucchianeri
His only crime, to arrive deformed. — E.A. Bucchianeri
What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person.
— Donna Brown
There's an old saying," Buck said. "A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty of them you're a damn genius.
— James Carlos Blake
He was committing a terrible crime. He was destroying her good opinion of herself. Topper
— Thorne Smith
office jokers were a crime in progress -
— Mick Herron
It [the Brady Bill] is not a panacea. It's not going to stop crimes of passion or drug-related crime.
— Sarah Brady
The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.
— Susan Estrich
I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.
— Karin Slaughter
A mistake from a good person always gets treated as crime.
— Pratik Akkawar
With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.
— John Banville
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
— Freda Adler
Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.
— Ron Dellums
If a drug dealer falls in West Baltimore and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound?
— David Simon
to teach without zest is a crime.
— Virginia Woolf
It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing
— Temple Emmet Williams
I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator.
— Katia Winter
Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?
— Robert Breault
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber.
— Brian Azzarello
Locard's Exchange Principle and it says "every contact between a perpetrator and a crime scene leaves a trace.
— Terry Hayes
A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.
— David Lagercrantz
I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
— Alfred Hitchcock
Jekyll and Hyde, in particular, is such an important novel in terms of suspense and setting a perfect scene for crime
— Alanna Knight
The Chinese had a saying that had been in her mind for a while, troubling her: Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it.
— James Patterson
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.
— Michael Connelly
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.
— John Barrasso
Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.
— Daniel O'Connell
Crime, particularly among the poor and downtrodden, is often a last gesture of liberty.
— Isabelle Eberhardt
You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.
— Edwin Meese
There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.
— Cedric Richmond
Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.
— A.J. Quinnell
Moriston House is really quite beautiful. No wonder everyone wants to be murdered here.
--Roberta "Bobbie" Aldridge — Jennifer A. Girardin
--Roberta "Bobbie" Aldridge — Jennifer A. Girardin
Darian murdered them in cold blood. That's a crime punishable with life in the Terrorscape, where you experience the worst nightmares imaginable.
— Shannon Duffy