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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

He who spares the guilty threatens the innocent

I feel guilty because I can't go down there and do anything else.

I can't really say I had anything to do with it at all. I was in the apartment. The only thing I pleaded guilty to was being in the wrong place and having a beeper.

David D. Burns

Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you are.

Catherine Deneuve

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

Charles Spurgeon

You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

Alan Watts

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

Chris Christie

It's a deal that will lead to a nuclear Iran, an Israel that will be less safe and secure, and a much more dangerous Middle East. Let's ask it: Hillary Clinton, as an inept negotiator of the worst nuclear arms deal in American history. Is she guilty or not guilty?

Chris Asplen

This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.

Edward Gibbon

Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious diet, are the most effectual preservatives against the impure desires of the flesh.

Audre Lorde

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

Gideon Gono

We are a guilty party from a technical point of view.

William Shakespeare

Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.

Jonah Goldberg

Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.

William Shakespeare

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

William Shakespeare

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

Monica Raymund

Unfortunately, as much as I am gullible, I also hate lying. I tend to tell the truth a lot... lying just isn't worth it. But I think I'm guilty of telling people that I'm 5 minutes away when really I'm about 45 or an hour away.

Beth Moore

Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.

Bill Watterson

Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse.

Kourtney Kardashian

After Mason was born, I'd feel guilty doing anything that wasn't related to work.

Jane Austen

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

Janet Reno

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.

C. S. Lewis

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

Blaise Pascal

The only shame is to have none.