Ann Rule Quotes

I always want to give the victim a voice.

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• For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • War
  • Service

• By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.

  

  Adam Dell
  • Live
  • High
  • Society

• I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Believe
  • Safety
  • Bus

• I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Find
  • Difficult
  • Attend

• You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Back
  • Land
  • Hotel

• For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.

  

  Laura Ziskin
  • Me
  • Really
  • Excited

• My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Never

• Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Love
  • Like
  • Wrong

• Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Excellence
  • Often

• We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Sea
  • Hard
  • England

• It's kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Song
  • Night

• Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety of things beyond mere outperformance.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • End
  • Selling

• International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • May
  • Taken
  • Present

• Paint the essential character of things.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Art
  • Character
  • Paint

• If a thing seems to you worth working for at all, if it appears to you of moment enough to challenge any effort, then put into what you do all the enthusiasm of which you are capable, regardless of criticism.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Challenge
  • Effort
  • Moment

• Egoism is the identification of the power that knows with the instruments of knowing.

  

  Patanjali
  • Power

• I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

  

  Rick James
  • Trying

• No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Selfish
  • Cheated

• I like shocking people just because, like, I can wear a dress, too. Not even for people to go, 'Oh she's grown up,' but to show people that I'm actually a girl.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

  

  O. Henry
  • Moral

• Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Rock
  • Hair
  • Shameless

• I always want to give the victim a voice.

  

  Ann Rule