Famous Quotes & Sayings

Padgett Powell

I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.

Scott Jones

You can find him guilty on Monday and not guilty on Tuesday.

William Moffitt

My understanding was that he was to plead guilty this afternoon.

S. Walker

Basically, he's told me he had no involvement in this murder, so we intend to plead not guilty and we intend to go to trial.

Simon Armitage

I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.

Bible Bible

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Tony Garcia

We're positive he was going to be not guilty because we know our family.

Michael Grimm

What I'm guilty of is trying the hardest and giving 100 percent of myself and putting my heart and soul into representing the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn.

Walter Todd

He was factually guilty of intentional homicide, but from the beginning, he's had remorse.

Bill Hicks

I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your f-kin' mouth.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You should go," I breathed. "You should definitely go." "Go here?" His mouth was on my shoulder. "Or here?" It moved up my neck.

William Shakespeare

"Lawyers Are": Perilous mouths.

Harry Crosby

I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together.

David Sedaris

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

Buddy Ebsen

Don't say giddy-up to your mouth before your head is hitched up.

Alan Rudolph

I'm me, I live from film to mouth.

Alan Watts

No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.

Al Pacino

You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.

Ellen Key

At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars.

Harlan Watson

We need to pursue our international efforts in a spirit of cooperation ? not coercion ? with a true sense of partnership,

Richard Bergenheim

It is always difficult to see someone speaking under coercion and under these circumstances. We are seeking more information about the letter that Jill refers to in the video. We remain in constant contact with Jill's family and are still doing everything possible to obtain Jill's release.

Dorothy Richardson

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Niall Ferguson

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.

Murray Rothbard

Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.

Tom Daschle

coercion is not his first option, but it's an option.

Herman Kahn

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

George F. Kennan

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.