Ironandvelvet Quotes & Sayings

Criminal law has to do with relations between the misbehaving individual and his government ... Criminal law establishes rules of conduct; their breach, if prosecuted and conviction follows, results in punishment. — Lawrence M. Friedman

Contempt is not a thing to be despised. — Edmund Burke

I had believed there was no such thing as redemption. I knew now I was wrong. Redemption had not come from grand gestures of dashing bravery. It had not come from successfully completing twelve impossible labors. Instead, redemption transpired from the small, quiet places. — Brodi Ashton

When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But I think we both walked away with the door still open, if we want to do something together again. So yeah, I would call it a friendly break-up. — Scott Stapp

I'm one of 23 million Americans in recovery who have gone on to live productive lives. — Michael Botticelli

These women who move through this landscape, holding themselves safe amid the terrible and sudden dangers, holding their limbs close to their bodies to lessen their profile, to lessen the places life can catch at them, and still maintaining movement, and still attending to men even when they elect to live a life apart from them, we can rely, he thinks, on having these women among us, rely on their courage to keep us brave. — Claire Robertson

It's a marvelous night for a moondance! — Van Morrison

I mean, I do wear a wedding ring and take it off when I shoot. — Henry Ian Cusick

The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation. — Jane Gardam

The very essence of success is practice. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years. — Bruce Greenwood

They fill every waking minute with action, but they are empty. To — Mitch Albom