Culprit Quotes

#1. Heroin was a coping mechanism that I had used to deal with my underlying fears. They were the real problems; heroin wasn't the culprit, my fears were.

Pax Prentiss

#2. We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

Wesley Snipes

#3. I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

Emanuel Ax

#4. What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.

Eugene Jarecki

#5. Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.

Hosea Ballou

#6. Time never changes - we change. We complain that time is the culprit which forces us to change.

Debasish Mridha

#7. If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.

Desmond Tutu

#8. Marriages are so complicated that no one person is the culprit. But, I am really interested in class without really realizing that I am. It's more the manifestations of different classes that interest me.

Nicole Holofcener

#9. Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.

Laurence Sterne

#10. Parents are the biggest culprit. In a bid to make their child score high marks, they are willing to indulge in practices that are unethical, like buying projects. They do not realise that such attempts will not make their child brighter or think over ideas.

Arvind Gupta

#11. They say it was Cesc Fabregas who threw the pizza at me but, to this day, I have no idea who the culprit was.

Alex Ferguson

#12. And what hypocrisy it is on the part of our Government to have the Bible in our courts of law for the culprit to take his oath upon and then be tried for the very crimes which the Bible itself sanctions.

Joseph Lewis

#13. I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

George Washington

#14. There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending, the pursuit you see and never the arrest" - Tom Waits "Foreign Affairs

Tom Waits

#16. And before you know it, the object disappears, arguments evaporate; no culprit is discovered, the offense ceases to be an offense and becomes a matter of fate, like the toothache which cannot be blamed on anyone, and the only thing that's left is, once again, to bang the wall as hard as you can.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#17. It occurred to us, from observation and from reasonin, that extra marital sex was not what really destroyed marriages, but rather the lies and deception that invariably accompanied it
that was the culprit. Page 317

Ossie Davis Ruby Dee

#18. The manufacturing of most goods harms the environment in one way or another. The culprit is not the factory, but it is we who buy what it produces. Therefore we should think carefully about items we purchase.

Amy Dacyczyn

#19. XVI. Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the culprit, - Life!

Emily Dickinson

#20. The consumer is both culprit and victim of the confusion on quality.

Nino Cerruti

#21. Farts come from no
one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong
to the group as a whole, and even when every person in the
room can point to the culprit, the only sane course of action is
denial.

Paul Auster

#22. Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just - his turn!

Peter Ustinov

#23. As it is with every Life experience,
from the cradle to the grave,
Curiosity, is the culprit,
and always leads the way.

D. O'Brien

#24. Simply calling the Great Fire an accident did not satisfy some people, most notably the local newspapers. They demanded a culprit--

Jim Murphy

#25. The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

Susan George

#26. Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty - a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.

Anthony De Mello

#27. Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#28. Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.

Molly Ivins

#29. In 1984, the Federal Trade Commission released a report that explained why taxis could charge customers exorbitant prices for dismal service. The simple reason, according to the 176-page study: lack of competition in the market. The culprit: local governments.

Marvin Ammori

#30. Nila was the culprit - my undoing. She melted me. She was the fucking sun. And I was about to splash out her heat.

Pepper Winters

#31. While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

Claire Cameron

#32. Puberty was the main culprit in ending my acting career. I went from being kind of this chunky little kid to looking different, and I was really bummed because I loved acting.

Jeff Cohen

#33. And although black civil rights leaders like to point to a supposedly racist criminal justice system to explain why our prisons house so many black men, it's been obvious for decades that the real culprit is black behavior - behavior too often celebrated in black culture.

Jason L. Riley

#34. My investigative technique mostly consisted of going through the list of interested parties and making as much noise as possible, until the culprit lost his patience and tried to shut me up.

Ilona Andrews

#35. He said her name like a detective unmasking the face of the culprit he'd suspected all along.

Allyse Near

#36. His transcendent sense of worth had risen and caught up to him. He did not like the world he lived in, and the people in it. He was just as much a victim as he was a culprit of the seven deadly sins.

Soroosh Shahrivar

#37. We have got to protect privacy rights. We have got to protect our God-given, constitutionally protected civil liberties, and we are not doing that in the federal government. The Department of Homeland Security, as well as the TSA, is a great culprit in being a Gestapo-type organization.

Paul Broun

#38. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all. In

Joseph Heller

#39. Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.

Debbie Ford

#40. Know that Truth sees through bullshit. So if you can't handle looking at Truth, you must be a Devil's culprit.

Suzy Kassem

#41. Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab the culprit: it was the city, the cops, the system, the crowd, the music. Anyone but him. Anyone but me.

Anna Quindlen

#42. No one believes their misfortunes are attributable to any shortcomings of their own; that is why they must find a culprit.

Umberto Eco

#43. Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

Joseph Heller

#44. Her wide, gorgeous smile was the culprit. It was pure magic. Neighbors lined the parking lot, eager to empty their pockets, all so she'd shine that beam on them.

Rachel Harris

#45. Because many of the people who were taken by the wasting disease happened to be white, God was not a viable culprit.

Walidah Imarisha

#46. According to one medical researcher, poor breathing plays a role in more than 75 percent of the ills people bring to their doctors. In most cases, poor diaphragmatic breathing is the culprit. On

Gay Hendricks

#47. I am not staying with the murderer," she said, her words muffled by his jacket. "I am not staying with the victim Abel Tannatek or the culprit Abel Tannatek. I am staying with the storyteller.

Antonia Michaelis

#48. The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf.

Thomas Sowell

#49. Just be careful," a Seattle homicide detective warned. "Maybe we'd better know where to find your dental records in case we need to identify you."
I laughed, but the words were jarring; the black humor that would surround Ted Bundy evermore begun.

Ann Rule

#50. We don't really know how the game was invented, though there are suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we'll let you know

Bruce Pandolfini

#51. Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished.

Mukhtar Ma'i