Special Investigations Group Quotes

#1. The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten little children.

Angela Carter

#2. Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#3. You can relax. I am not here to collect on the deal"
I blinked. "You are not? Then why did you drop your gun belt?"
"I am tired. I wanted to sit and the belt is uncomfortable."
"Oh."
He smiled. "Disappointed?"
"No." Liar, liar, pants on fire.

Janet Evanovich

#4. The imagination never dies.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

#5. Sometimes we succeed because of our upbringing, sometimes we do so in spite of it.

Lois Greiman

#6. There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

Rio Ferdinand

#7. I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.

Sheryl Sandberg

#8. I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.

David Bowie

#9. He'd almost died and seeing the proof of his knife wounds, hearing him describe the incident that had almost taken his life, rattled her so much.
With him still holding her wrist, she bent awkwardly and pressed her lips against the worst of his scars.

Virna DePaul

#10. A serial killer's modus operandi could evolve over time, but rarely would he change his signature, an act that often had nothing to do with the way the victim actually died but had more to do with fulfilling some kind of need the killer had.

Virna DePaul

#11. [Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.

Don Herold

#12. But the policeman radiates the calm and ease of a traffic light;

Joseph Roth

#13. Writing is a prayer.

Franz Kafka

#14. There is only one relief for great sufferings, and that is to endure and surrender to their compulsion.

Seneca.

#15. When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the filth that so often is part of the American political debate is that candidates have to stand by their ads.

Sheldon Whitehouse

#16. She locked eyes with Jase. And said his middle name. "David."
Simultaneously, she fired her weapon.
Jase wrenched himself to the side. The bullet lodged in Turner's brain before Jase even hit the ground.

Virna DePaul

#17. In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

George Wald

#18. Kids are clever and full of fun but, oh, they can be a terrible nuisance!

Alice Provensen