Presumed Guilty Quotes

#1. Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. Americans are a confused people because they can't admit this contradiction. They believe in a universe of divine justice where the human race is guilty of sin, but they also believe in a secular justice where human beings are presumed innocent.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#3. Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.

Clive Cussler

#4. One thing I wish I'd done differently in my career is insist on having friends or family on tour. I was really young when I travelled the world with Eternal, and I was always homesick.

Louise Nurding

#5. Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

Ed Markey

#6. The best protection any woman can have ... is courage.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#7. Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.

Asa Don Brown

#8. I learned something about truth - that truth has an urgency. It forces itself up sometimes, disregarding your need not to look, brought to the surface by that part of us that looks out for our own safety and well-being, if only we'd listen.

Deb Caletti

#9. Neither pathway is correct.

Azaam Yahoo

#10. People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#11. I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.

Amy Tan

#12. In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the results of operations are those peculiar results which correspond to the nature of the subjects of operation.

Ada Lovelace

#13. bipedal, oxygen-breathing carboniform

Iain M. Banks

#14. What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years.

David Miliband

#15. Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!

Eddie Izzard

#16. If you love someone, you need to be honest. Brave. Tell them straight out and blow up the fucking rules. Because I'm starting to believe there shouldn't be any rules when you love someone.

Jennifer Probst

#17. Your life isn't about all you can't do. It's about what you can do.

Jennifer L. Armentrout