Interesting Criminology Quotes

#1. For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

Eva Figes

#2. A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down to it, is worth more.

Philip K. Dick

#3. Perfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen.

Rebecca McKinsey

#4. God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#5. You know how to shoot a gun?" "Nope." I passed it back to her. "Safety's off. Point it and then pull the trigger." "What if I shoot myself?" "Don't." "Thanks for the lesson." "Anytime, babe.

Cambria Hebert

#6. To do this walk, I believe it's around 2,000 feet, to go from the U.S. to Canada. I would train walking a wire almost 8,000 feet, to overtrain for this.

Nik Wallenda

#7. Husband and wives are never completely honest with each other - no marriage could survive it.

Lisa Kleypas

#8. May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Henry David Thoreau

#9. What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

Isaac Marion

#10. I find it funny that you could pass the same person on the street, in a store, or even in your neighborhood many times before actually meeting, thinking you've never seen them before, but when you are finally introduced, they seem to pop up everywhere.

Courtney Giardina

#11. She watched the children the way a snake might watch a cat.

Mark Haddon

#12. A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor.

Margaret Chan

#13. Let me tell you, a discussion that starts, 'I'll tell you something you do that irritates me, if you tell me something I do that bothers you,' never ends in a hug and a kiss.

Phyllis Diller

#14. My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.

Veruschka Von Lehndorff