Carole Nelson Douglas Quotes
Murder before impropriety! ... It never fails to shock me - what a properly brought-up Englishwoman will condone to ensure her blessed propriety.Carole Nelson Douglas
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
Barry White -
It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
Jacki Weaver -
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Walter Benjamin -
Right now, I'm just shocked by it all, the way that it ended. This is weird all the way around. But that's the way it goes. It just got away from us.
Gary Sheffield -
That should shock and awaken every American. You have to question what's going on here & The government acts as if they're oblivious to this & The entire enterprise is collapsing.
B. R. Hayden -
The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
Lauren Graham
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
Alexander Berkman -
What do you know what goes on inside a man's mind? Outside he may look like a gentleman, but inside ' e may 'ave the 'ankering for murder.
Lester Cole -
In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it.
Auberon Waugh -
One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
Bill Vaughan -
What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!
Douglas Jerrold -
I was disappointed and in a little bit of shock. I had a really hard time with a couple of jumps in the warm-up and I just couldn't get over it. I definitely didn't think I was going to get any medal at all at the end of the program, so it was a nice surprise.
Sasha Cohen
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If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.
Immanuel Kant -
Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.
Socrates -
The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's humanity. The most vile murder does not, in my view, release the state from constitutional restraint on the destruction of human dignity.
William J. Brennan, Jr. -
Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.
Confucius -
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
Lao Tzu -
My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.
Tom Conti -
I can believe anything as long as it is incredible.
Oscar Wilde -
A river reaches places its source never knows.
Oswald Chambers -
If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.
Gabrielle Union -
Murder before impropriety! ... It never fails to shock me - what a properly brought-up Englishwoman will condone to ensure her blessed propriety.
Carole Nelson Douglas