Impossible Crime Quotes

#1. A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Nicholas Sparks

#2. It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. As a rule, if a crime is committed by one group against another ethnic or religious group, it is nearly impossible for the perpetrator to punish itself.

Taner Akcam

#4. We need not think alike to love alike.

David Francis

#5. [T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions, an impression of the contradictory, the impossible, the irrational, and thus shake the concept of rationality in his victim.

Ayn Rand

#6. Journalists of late seem too eager to change the world in various ways; the point is to describe it, accurately and carefully.

David Burr Gerrard

#7. If you do not write something original you have written nothing at all.

Steve Levi

#8. I guess you can't live at full-on intensity forever. Lying on the bed of my cell in the dark, trembling, waiting for the soldiers to come in and shoot me - you just can't keep doing that. There's something in the human spirit that won't let you live that way.

John Marsden

#9. My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be mysterious, weird, intriguing, and contain the seeds of the solution. The structure has to be meticulous - I'm a structure freak.

Sophie Hannah

#10. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Ayn Rand

#11. It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense

Philip K. Dick

#12. The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.

Peter Thiel

#13. It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

Jose Bergamin

#14. Time will unfold its leaves.

Glen Cook

#15. The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

Russell Baker

#16. We should employ our passions in the service of life," Sir Richard Steele wrote, "not spend life in the service of our passions.

Joan D. Chittister

#17. Sometimes there just aren't enough words to fill the crack in your heart.

Robin Benway

#18. At night in the town's countryside, you could just about feel and hear everything, but without using lamps, it was impossible to see anything other than shadows

Peter Fryer

#19. One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

John Ruskin

#20. Oh , kinda playing things by ear

Norman Mailer

#21. Make a difference," she said. "Love. Be loved. And be happy."

Dan Koontz

#22. You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

John Waters

#23. If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

John Maynard Keynes

#24. It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun.

S.A. Tawks

#25. It is impossible," I concluded, "to find any satisfaction in the thought of 25,000 slaughtered Germans, left to mutilation and decay; the destruction of men as though beasts, whether they be English, French, German or anything else, seems a crime to the whole march of civilization.

Vera Brittain