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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

Life is like a dream, when you wake up,
you only have memories. — Sheeja Jose

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

The Corrupt Officer has a Price and the Honest Officer has Integrity — Gary York

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

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

At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland. — S.A. Tawks

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

In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing. — B. Barmanbek

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

If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant. — Cormega

The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands. — S.A. Tawks

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

What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person. — Donna Brown

People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it. — Sarah Koenig

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature. — Ovid

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

the slaughter of foals is a terrible crime. . . . We do not touch the innocent. — J.K. Rowling

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood. — Rob Reiner

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

The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head. — Henry Mosquera

I tried starting a crime gang once. It turned into a book club. — Gina Amos

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. — Mark Twain

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

In a place filled with fears, they were looking for the man who had none. — John Katzenbach

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

It was as if I was automatically one of them because I smoked. — S.A. Tawks

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

There is always a unique atmosphere in the car when you drive through the City with a dead body in the back. — Steen Langstrup

Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime. — David Shuster