Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Joseph Biden

No. 1, on the police training, we've wasted 17 months,

Frank Serpico

The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police

Joseph Wambaugh

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Spiros Segalas

It's making the Dow more meaningful, more representative of the stock market.

Desmond Tutu

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.

Angelina Jolie

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

Thomas Kyd

Where words prevail not, violence prevails.

Tacitus

Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.

Michael Haneke

Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

Louis L'Amour

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

Margaret Millar

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

Hillary Clinton

Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.

Herbert Marcuse

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.