Famous Quotes & Sayings

We used to have more officers there and crime was really downnow you see no one.

Asa Butterfield

Don't do piracy. Piracy is a crime.

Bruce Lee

Low aim, not failure, is the crime.

Val McDermid

I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.

Those are human beings. That's where people live. It doesn't matter how much crime or how dirty. It's still people's home.

Joan Robinson

We were actually talking about it at work this morning. It just does not fee as if justice was done. Seems like a really serious crime with a pretty small consequence.

We don't know why that's true, but countywide, statewide, even nationally, data shows us that violent crimes tend to increase during July and August,

Evidence from mobile devices has provided critical help in solving crimes ranging from homicides to drug trafficking.

Ving Rhames

I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.

The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.

The crime was horrible. Everyone in the town is curious about what happened.

Steve Camp

The crimes which I'm guilty of were several years ago and nothing since.

The crime lab lost about $1.3 million in equipment and assets. The evidence vault did take on water. (The evidence) all has been recovered.

The crime is definitely on the increase and it shows no sign of stopping. It's a frightening thing.

When I started writing the third book, 'The Kill,' the intention was just to write a thriller, a crime novel for myself, really, in which there would be no body, no solution - where you would look at an event from different people's perspectives.

The database is very important on solving old crimes and new crimes. It's also important for protecting innocence.

The defendant has been proven guilty of participating in a crime of corruption. The punishment is five years.

Agatha Christie

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

Charles M. Blow

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

We dispatched homicide investigators to the hospital and forensic crime scene investigators to the attraction, and the scene was secured.

Karin Slaughter

Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

Sure, the more intrusive the government becomes, the more potential crime it can solve.

Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.

My opponent is the king of smoke and mirrors. His budget's been smoke and mirrors. His crime statistics have been smoke and mirrors.

My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion.

Jacques Rogge

It is a question of sporting ethics rather than a question of crime and criminality.

Last week you said in the debate that you opposed the Kennedy hate crime bill,

Law enforcement is a glaring example. We have separate booking, separate road patrols. We have two crime labs.

Restorative Justice puts a human face on the handling of crime and violence. Rather than being purely punitive in approach, restorative justice involves the entire community.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

I am linking the crimes. We are treating this as a racist offense.

But the thing about the murder case, murder is one of the few - I mean, it's the only crime there's no statute of limitations on.

Voltaire

History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes