Isaac Watts Quotes

Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!

Isaac Watts

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• 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
  • Up
  • Time
  • Period

• The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Like
  • Crime
  • Plague

• Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.

  

  Vicki Delany
  • Writing
  • Crime
  • Greatest

• I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Study
  • Crime
  • Loneliness

• 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
  • People
  • Reality
  • Author

• To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Government
  • Crime
  • Run

• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Crime
  • Fault
  • Indifference

• Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

  

  Wally Amos
  • Write
  • Crime
  • Resort

• The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • People
  • Company
  • Crime

• I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Live
  • True
  • Crime

• 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
  • Country
  • Crime
  • Brutality

• 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
  • People
  • Me
  • Fashion

• Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Think
  • Crime
  • I Can

• White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Bored
  • Crime
  • U.S.

• Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • May
  • You
  • Violence

• The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Character
  • Best
  • Crime

• First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Death
  • First
  • Crime

• Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Failure
  • Learn
  • Crime

• Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.

  

  Helen Hunt
  • Black
  • Sides
  • Stain

• What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Fail
  • Knew
  • Not

• But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Soul

• To my mind's eye, my buried memories of Brandham Hall are like effects of chiaroscuro, patches of light and dark: it is only with effort that I see them in terms of colour. There are things I know, though I don't know how I know them, and things that I remember. Certain things are established in my mind as facts, but no picture attaches to them; on the other hand there are pictures unverified by any fact which recur obsessively, like the landscape of a dream.

  

  Leslie Poles Hartley
  • Memory

• Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Crime
  • Degrees