Top 1200 Murder Mysteries Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.

Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other.

Shia phobia or Sunni phobia...we never hear about this. They murder each other!

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de si?cle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way.

Bangkok 8 is one of the most startling and provocative mysteries that I've read in years. The characters are marvelously unique, the setting is intoxicating and the plot unwinds in dark illusory strands, reminiscent of Gorky Park. Once I started, I didn't want to put it down.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

As is well known, all collectors are prepared to steal or murder if it is a question of getting another piece for their collection; but this does not lower their moral character in the least.

The Nazi murder squads just wouldn't waste a bullet on a child. I just couldn't process that. I couldn't handle it.

Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles, deeds of the Devil, and consider it very probable that things of this sort could occur in everything anywhere.

Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.

Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.

Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt all the well wishers thereof.... They count as fables the holy mysteries of religion.

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.

Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita

They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor.

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is not admissible amongst us.

You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!

There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.

Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.

I realized that lab research was the perfect path for me. It allowed me to spend every day figuring out mysteries/puzzles that have to do with what make us alive. What could be a bigger mystery or puzzle?

My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If it were wholly comprehensible, then it would just be another philosophy.

My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think.

There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added to its knowledge. It is as if these fortunate persons had been present when this magnificent organ was created.

59% of all suicides are actually botched murder-suicides performed by dyslexics.

Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen... I love the process of going into mystery.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.

I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

I thought that was the coolest thing in the world, the idea of somebody trying to solve mysteries. I would see conspiracies in everything. I think I believed in leprechauns longer than any of my fellow classmates because I tried to catch them.

I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.

I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.

She's beautiful and graceful, and she is very compassionate and loyal when you aren't responsible for the murder of her family.

I will lead mankind into a new world! You cannot kill me! No man can murder me!

The issue is, the Arabs have many allies. Among the worst reactionaries in the world. No religion out of which so much murder comes as there is in certain parts of Islam.

'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about.

We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana would rain down on my head like grace and all the cosmic mysteries were going to be revealed.

Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.

????Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.

Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.

Motivation is a mystery.Why does one salesperson see his first prospect at seven in the morning and another salesperson is just getting out of bed at eleven?I don't know.It's part of the mysteries of life.

We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.

Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.

It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into the abyss, believing therein lie the answers to the mysteries of the universe.