Karin Slaughter Quotes

My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.

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• It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Energy
  • Purpose
  • Strength

• Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Fantasy
  • Only

• What goes for sex goes double for politics.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Sex
  • Politics
  • Double

• I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Good
  • Done
  • May

• When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Remember
  • Light
  • Win

• And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Think
  • Know
  • Voice

• Let us have peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Peace
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Live
  • Grow
  • Old-fashioned

• I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Space
  • Years
  • Battle

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Communication

• The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Important
  • Play

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Stop

• I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Change
  • Journalism

• I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Never
  • Been
  • Jealous

• Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Sweet

• I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Long
  • Women

• Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Work
  • Great
  • Business

• Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new ones; the old religions are pretty good.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • People
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering?

  

  Andrea Corr
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.

  

  Frederick Soddy
  • Preparation

• What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Childhood
  • Sex
  • Laughter

• My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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