Trialed Criminal Quotes & Sayings

Let's face it: suffering discredits goodness. I'm agnostic in practice though faith-based in theory. I used to pray but now know he'll do what he darn well pleases when he darn well pleases. Will he listen? Maybe. We have a book that says so, but how much happens beyond that book, I can't say. That's agnosticism in its bleakest and most honest form. Don't judge me, yet believe me when I tell you that years of abuse tend to wring out every ounce of one's ability to understand and adhere to faith in standard form. — Chila Woychik

A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job. — Jamaica Kincaid

Why do the Fascists want violence?" Ethel asked rhetorically. "Those out there in Hills Road may be mere hooligans, but someone is directing them, and their tactics have a purpose. When there is fighting in the streets, they can claim that public order has broken down, and drastic measures are needed to restore the rule of law. Those emergency measures will include banning democratic political parties such as Labour, prohibiting trade union action, and jailing people without trial - people such as us, peaceful men and women whose only crime is to disagree with the government. Does this sound fantastic to you, unlikely, something that could never happen? Well, they used exactly those tactics in Germany - and it worked." She went on to talk about how Fascism — Ken Follett

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics. — Edward Kasner

I says to myself it's a good thing her eyes are giving out, — William Faulkner

Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other. — Margaret Cavendish

She threw herself on her knees, and raising up her hands, cried the same words in tones which wrung my heart. Then she tore her hair and beat her breast, and abandoned herself to all the violences of extravagant emotion. — Bram Stoker

Nothing touches her. To be touched is weakness. — Karen Marie Moning

Out of all of the Star Trek movies, I happen to like the most recent one the best. I think it was the best one ever done. — William Monahan