Criminologists Do Not Believe Quotes & Sayings

You ain't scared I'll kill you?
You already did. At the dark park. The suspense is gone. — Dia Reeves

I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words. — Katherine McCoy

It's not how you look, it's how you feel in the dark — Paula Wall

When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way. — Armand Hammer

We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much. — Timothy Noah

Time to Rack Up! — David Dweck

Many criminologists believe that the source of the state's pacifying effect isn't just its brute coercive power but the trust it commands among the populace. After all, no state can post an informant in every pub and farmhouse to monitor breaches of the law, and those that try are totalitarian dictatorships that rule by fear, not civilized societies where people coexist through self-control and empathy. A Leviathan can civilize a society only when the citizens feel that its laws, law enforcement, and other social arrangements are legitimate, so that they don't fall back on their worst impulses as soon as Leviathan's back is turned. — Steven Pinker

My dying tutor told me that he would like to live till I had been a poet, but Death was much of Mob as I could master-then-And when far afterward-a sudden light on Orchards, or a new fashion in the wind troubled my attention- I felt a palsy, here- the Verses just relieve- (174) — Emily Dickinson

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus. — Jim Lovell

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. — Barbara Walters

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album. — Natalie Imbruglia

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. — Ernie Harwell

Within chaos lies opportunity. — P.C. Cast

I agreed with his thesis that God was not an all-powerful "cosmic superman" looking down from the penthouse as much as He was Love. — Dick Van Dyke

People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything. — Maceo Parker