Madness In Crime And Punishment Quotes & Sayings

If you have never tasted a braised vegetable, you'll find it is a revelation. — James Beard

Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eye. — Pierre-Simon Laplace

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth. — Will Rogers

You won't be able to find the truth by merely seeking it.
You also have to change your perspective and yourself. — Toba Beta

The person who gives selflessly in this lifetime immediately goes into a better state of mind. That is instant karma. — Frederick Lenz

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive. — Bo Bennett

If you won't take yourself seriously,
why would anyone else?
If you can't love yourself madly,
how could anyone else? — Himmilicious

The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same. — Sherman Alexie

The theories of the social sciences do not consist of "laws" in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects definable in physical terms. All that the theory of the social sciences attempts is to provide a technique of reasoning which assists us in connecting individual facts, but which, like logic or mathematics, is not about the facts. It can, therefore, and this is the second point, never be verified or falsified by reference to facts. — Friedrich Hayek

I thought of telling him I didn't know about reasons, only about chains - how they form themselves, link by link, out of nothing; how they knit themselves into the world. Sometimes you can grab a chain and use it to pull yourself out of a dark place. Mostly, though, I think you get wrapped up in them. Just caught, if you're lucky. Fucking strangled, if you're not. — Stephen King

Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The liberation from ignorance and tyranny was a long war, because the oppressors always had the advantage. They smooth-talked the masses with lies and promises. — Michael R. French

We haven't met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. "Five years next November." The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute. — F Scott Fitzgerald