Frank Abagnale Quotes

The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies.

Frank Abagnale

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• I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Dark
  • Magic
  • Mood

• I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

  

  C. J. Box
  • People
  • Children
  • Real

• I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Nature
  • Actor
  • Africa

• I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Think
  • Middle East

• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Down

• I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Believe
  • Violence
  • Forgiveness

• Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Time
  • Team
  • Working

• An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Reason
  • Nobody

• To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Mom

• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Result

• I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Romantic
  • Comedies
  • Basically

• To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • World
  • Believe
  • True

• My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the collective box of humanity.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Great
  • Wish
  • Humanity

• If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Solar

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• The Obama administration has been weak and inconsistent in enforcing immigration laws.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Immigration
  • Laws
  • Weak

• I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Year
  • Started
  • Shell

• Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Family
  • Future
  • Freedom

• At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Technology
  • Present
  • Financial

• All you need is one person in a group to be honest, and then slowly, very slowly, everyone else starts telling the truth. That's why our lecturers must be former members of Weight Watchers. They must have lost weight our way.

  

  Jean Nidetch
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Lost

• There ain't no sort of orse that I ain't bred, and no sort of dorg. Orses and dorgs is some men's fancy. They're wittles and drink to me - lodging, wife, and children - reading, writing, and Arithmetic - snuff, tobacker, and sleep.

  

  David Copperfield
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Children

• World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.

  

  David Ignatius
  • World
  • War
  • Deception

• The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Law