Quotes About False Confessions

#1. How could anyone live without flying?

Gregory Maguire

#2. It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me.

Sara Sheridan

#3. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe. The more you live in the truth, the more your emotions will help you see clearly. But even then, you don't want to trust them more than me.

William Paul Young

#4. Singing's not my real passion.

Skrillex

#5. If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.

David K. Shipler

#6. I have great admiration for athletes. They are just like actors in a lot of ways. They have tremendous pressures and conflicts. They have to compete, and they can't stay home just because they have a head cold.

Ben Cross

#7. There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

Bill James

#8. Things are often exactly what they seem---horrifying or distasteful, even repugnant and disgusting.

Norman Giddan

#9. Dad endorsed my learning to fly so he would have a live-in pilot, one he could get in touch with at any time.

Ross Perot Jr.

#10. People plead guilty or admit to crimes they didn't commit for various reasons. Certain interrogation procedures produce high rates of false confessions.

Eric Schneiderman

#11. Buddhist mantras are deliberately deep yet superficially meaningless - to take your mind off things

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#12. Yet without the darkness," said Palin suddenly, "we would never be aware that the stars exist.

Margaret Weis