Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan King

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

Charles Dickens

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Charles Sturt

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

David Harris

There are a lot of criminals in this city, ... We were the first on the water, we were the first to rescue people.

Charles Grassley

The real crime here is the Clinton-Gore record on drugs. He should explain why, during the Clinton-Gore administration, the number of teenagers using drugs nearly doubled.

Mohammed Hussain

We used to have more officers there and crime was really downnow you see no one.

Cesare Beccaria

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Jennifer Martin

This was not a drug deal. That defendant wanted money. And this was a crime of opportunity.

Eion Bailey

I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.

Carlos Fuentes

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

Charles de Gaulle

It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

Charles Caleb Colton

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

Thomas Middleditch

I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special in particular because this was before I had gotten anything, before anything was clicking, and I just found myself hanging out with Scott Thompson.

Barbara Kingsolver

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same

Arthur Helps

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Edward Gibbon

The fortune of nations has often depended on accidents . . .

Dikembe Mutombo

I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

Belle Boyd

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

Audre Lorde

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

George H. W. Bush

Whoever says Americas best days are behind it are looking the wrong direction.

Patrick Ness

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

Nelson Mandela

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

Ernest Holmes

Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.

Jack Canfield

What is the why behind everything you do?

Martin McDonagh

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

Seth Grahame-Smith

Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.

Stevie Smith

This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.