Quotes About Nilsen

#1. Federal drug forfeiture laws are one reason, Blumenson and Nilsen note, why state and federal prisons now confine large numbers of men and women who had relatively minor roles in drug distribution networks, but few of their bosses.

Michelle Alexander

#2. I have started down the avenue of death and depression of a new kind of flatmate.

Dennis Nilsen

#3. A person is a person because s/he recognizes others as persons.

Desmond Tutu

#4. Context shapes who you are.

Cornel West

#5. Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving. I'm not the station, I'm not the stop: I'm the train. I'm the train.

Martin Amis

#6. I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it.

Dennis Nilsen

#7. I don't know why I stayed in this big lost corner of New Hampshire. Probably because I can blow bubble pipe bubbles at absolute zero and nobody up here pays me any mind.

K.R. Nilsen

#8. In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

Dennis Nilsen

#9. I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally.

Rich Donnelly

#10. You can't cure ignorance based solely on the basis of a valid argument...

Gary A. Nilsen

#11. In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

Zaha Hadid

#12. Could be an amazing product, sell like condoms at a high school prom, donuts at a police convention, sunscreen on a Caribbean crush ship.

Dennis Vickers

#13. We know that we deserve punishment and then, when we receive mercy instead, we discover grace. Romans 5:8 reads, "While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." God gives forgiveness and imputes righteousness to us even though we are sinful and while we were His enemies (vv. 6, 8, 10).

Tullian Tchividjian

#14. Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.

John C. Maxwell

#15. The room held her scent, fresh lilac, pathetic.

Stephen King

#16. I'll 'ave 'er there well afore, ma'am," the cabby said, impressed by the guinea, if by nothing else. He chirruped to his horse, who trotted off without needing a slap of the reins or a touch of the whip.

Mercedes Lackey

#17. I wish I could stop but I could not. I had no other thrill or happiness.

Dennis Nilsen

#18. The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world-class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If you don't see the potential, you won't put in the effort and you'll wait for the performance, and the performance always follows the belief in self.

Denis Waitley

#19. I am damned and damned and damned. How in heaven's name could I have done any of it?

Dennis Nilsen

#20. I saw him ... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength.

Dennis Nilsen

#21. I have judged myself more harshly than any court ever could.

Dennis Nilsen

#22. If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

Claude Vorilhon

#23. In our culture it is a woman's body which is considered important while it is a man's mind or his activities which are valued. A woman is sexy. A man is successful.

Alleen Pace Nilsen

#24. Oh, lighten up, Clark. I'm the one having scalding hot air directed at my genitals.

Jojo Moyes

#25. We left. We did not say: Don't drive, You're drunk.
We did not say: We aren't letting you in that car when you are upset.
We did not say: We insist on going with you.
We did not say: This can wait until tomorrow. Anything-everything-can wait.

John Green