Michael Dibdin Quotes

#1. Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who're cut out for the job.

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#2. There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.

Veronica Roth

#3. Did I imagine all this? People are shooting at me! My job blew up, and I just watched myself exit my own room! This has been one day I will never forget!

D.W. Beam

#4. a dark side doesn't mean a bad soul, and if it is, who's good then


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Rohit Omar

#5. I fell in love again (laughs).

Jane Campion

#6. I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.

Terry Crews

#7. The whole is the false.

Theodor Adorno

#8. Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals.

Michael Dibdin

#9. The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.

Yukio Mishima

#10. Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don't even want to look at.

Pema Chodron

#11. You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you.

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#12. It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.

Hippocrates

#13. If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.

Jake M. Johnson

#14. Every country has a cultural legacy and religious practices for reasons that I don't believe fall under the category of superstition, something that a religious scholar should understand.

Santosh Kalwar

#15. The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet.

George W. Bush

#16. He certainly seemed to have all the qualities of a gentleman, but the interesting kind who knows exactly when to stop behaving like one.

Michael Dibdin

#17. He that chastens one, chastens 20.

George Herbert

#18. And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

Bill Bruford

#19. Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

Harriet Harman

#20. Nowadays people think that history is what was on TV last night.

Michael Dibdin

#21. What is true for a given person in a given situation is not necessarily true for that person in a different situation, or for another person in the same situation, and still less if both are different.

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#22. The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really being killed by somebody. And this involves the investigator in trying to understand the society that the person lived in.

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