Mark Steyn Quotes
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Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
Vicki Delany -
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
J. Edgar Hoover -
A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
Natsuo Kirino
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
Irene Peter -
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack Kerouac -
What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
Pat Brown -
Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
Wally Amos -
That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
Karin Slaughter -
I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
Kate Mosse
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Samuel Gompers -
I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
Octavia Spencer -
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
Ida B. Wells -
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
Karin Slaughter -
People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
Calvin Klein -
Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.
Sally Yates
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There are fires, vast and endless, that burn in me for you. And I will carry them until you are ready to walk through the Flames of me.
William C. Hannon -
Any judicial nominee who has said that the Constitution means what it says, not what judges would like it to mean, is going to be called an 'extremist.' That person will be said to be 'out of the mainstream.' But the mainstream is itself the problem.
Thomas Sowell -
And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were killed at that time with complete contempt and hate, who were tortured to death, starved, gassed, incinerated, and hanged.
Andrzej Szczypiorski -
The average woman is a size 14 but 'plus' models start at a size six. The industry wants you to feel bad about yourself, and they succeed. I find it to be disgusting.
Whitney Thompson -
In Britain, everything is policed except crime.
Mark Steyn