Criminis Quotes & Sayings

Even if you fall on the runway, I wouldn't blame you. It would mean that we made a mistake in choosing you. — Ai Yazawa

Lightning always strikes in the same place twice," said Mma Ramotswe. "Whatever people say to the contrary. — Alexander McCall Smith

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been. — Ronald Reagan

Self editing is the path to the dark side. Self editing leads to self delusion, self delusion leads to missed mistakes, missed mistakes lead to bad reviews. Bad reviews are the tools of the dark side. — Eric T. Benoit

Bertrand Russell claimed that "at least half the sins of mankind" were caused by the fear of boredom. — Warren W. Wiersbe

life is made up of many comings and goings and for everything that we take with us,we must leave something behind — Herman Raucher

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. — Ayn Rand

There was a moment of silence, and he was aware of the servants' chiding stares. Suddenly, as a group, they broke into effusive compliments in an effort to atone for their master's boorishness.
"You're as lovely as a picture, miss!"
"...no one there will outshine you..."
"...a queen in that gown..."
A hot, troubling feeling expanded in Grant's chest, and he wanted to snap at them for being so ungodly solicitous of the feelings of a professional harlot. But he couldn't... because he was as much under her spell as the rest of them. — Lisa Kleypas

Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare. — Jeb Bush

I've even delivered a few of their babies. (Wulf)
Really? (Cassandra)
Oh, yeah. You have to love the days before modern roads, and hospitals when I was up to my elbows in placenta. (Wulf) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I was wrong. So damn wrong. You need a strong man, babe. You need a man to love you, to protect you, to be your fuckin' world." Her breath paused and I smirked. "It's me, babe. It's so fuckin' me. — Tillie Cole

I like to be treated as a lady. — Sharon Stone

There is no bitterness in Wind In His Hair's heart," he began. "Our minds may choose different paths, but some part of every heart will always be as one. All my life I have been a warrior, and I will not change. I will not die as anything else.
"The whites have taken much from me. They have taken my brothers, my wives, my children. Now they want to take me off the earth upon which I walk. Maybe they will kill me now, and if they do, so be it. I will not take their hands. I will keep my ponies' tails tied up for war."

- Wind In His Hair — Michael Blake

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present. — Mariel Hemingway

And I wondered then, how do we ever know what beauty lies inside of people, and the strange ways this world works to lure that beauty outward? — Douglas Coupland

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis. — Henry David Thoreau